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... tell old tales and laugh At gilded butterflies , and hear poor rogues Talk of court news . He dedicated his charming life to an innocence and a virtue which were natural to himself , and which , therefore , most of all he admired in ...
... tell old tales and laugh At gilded butterflies , and hear poor rogues Talk of court news . He dedicated his charming life to an innocence and a virtue which were natural to himself , and which , therefore , most of all he admired in ...
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... tell the reader , that till his Grace had laid this injunction upon me , I could not admit a thought of any fitness in me to undertake it ; but when he twice had enjoined me to it , I then declined my own , and trusted his judgment ...
... tell the reader , that till his Grace had laid this injunction upon me , I could not admit a thought of any fitness in me to undertake it ; but when he twice had enjoined me to it , I then declined my own , and trusted his judgment ...
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... tell the manner how - and at last to a marriage too , without the allowance of those friends , whose approbation always was , and ever will be necessary , to make even a virtuous love become lawful . And , that the knowledge of their ...
... tell the manner how - and at last to a marriage too , without the allowance of those friends , whose approbation always was , and ever will be necessary , to make even a virtuous love become lawful . And , that the knowledge of their ...
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... tell you , that my love , begot by our long friendship and your merits , hath prompted me to such an inquisition after your present temporal estate , as makes me no stranger to your necessities ; which I know to be such as your generous ...
... tell you , that my love , begot by our long friendship and your merits , hath prompted me to such an inquisition after your present temporal estate , as makes me no stranger to your necessities ; which I know to be such as your generous ...
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... tell what , is no wonder in this time of my sadness ; for to choose is to do ; but to be no part of any body , is as to be nothing : and so I am , and shall so judge myself , unless I could be so incorporated into a part of the world ...
... tell what , is no wonder in this time of my sadness ; for to choose is to do ; but to be no part of any body , is as to be nothing : and so I am , and shall so judge myself , unless I could be so incorporated into a part of the world ...
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Page 34 - When thou hast done, thou has not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 19 - Moving of the earth brings harms and fears; Men reckon what it did, and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love — Whose soul is sense — cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we by a love so...
Page 34 - HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER. Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin, -which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year...
Page 178 - School ; where the beauties of his pretty behaviour and wit shined, and became so eminent and lovely in this his innocent age, that he seemed to be marked out for piety, and to become the care of Heaven, and of a particular good angel to guard and guide him.
Page 79 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 179 - ... and so much under her own eye, as to see and converse with him daily; but she managed this power over him without any such rigid sourness as might make her company a torment to her child ; but with such a sweetness and compliance with the recreations and pleasures of youth as did incline him willingly to spend much of his time in the company of his dear and careful mother ; which was to her great content...
Page 155 - Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Page 12 - I ask my own conscience whether it be reconcilable to that rule, it is at this time so perplexed about it that I can neither give myself nor you an answer. You know, Sir, who says, ' Happy is that man whose conscience doth not accuse him for that thing which he does.' To these I might add other reasons that dissuade me; but I crave your favor that I may forbear to express them and thankfully decline your offer.
Page 221 - Farrer, and tell him, he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have past betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my master ; in whose service I have now found perfect freedom : desire him to read it ; and then, if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul, let it be made public : if not, let him burn it...
Page 188 - These seals he gave or sent to most of those friends on which he put a value ; and, at Mr. Herbert's death, these verses were found wrapt up with that seal, which was by the Doctor given to him : When my dear friend could write no more, He gave this Seal and so gave o'er.