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... writ these two Lives , I lay quiet twenty years , without a thought of either troubling myself or others , by any new engagement in this kind ; for I thought I knew my unfitness . But , about that time , Dr. Gauden ( then Lord Bishop of ...
... writ these two Lives , I lay quiet twenty years , without a thought of either troubling myself or others , by any new engagement in this kind ; for I thought I knew my unfitness . But , about that time , Dr. Gauden ( then Lord Bishop of ...
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... writ chiefly to please myself , but yet not without some respect to posterity : For though he was not a man that the next age can forget , yet many of his particular acts and virtues might have been neglected , or lost , if I had not ...
... writ chiefly to please myself , but yet not without some respect to posterity : For though he was not a man that the next age can forget , yet many of his particular acts and virtues might have been neglected , or lost , if I had not ...
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... writ , John Donne , Anne Donne , Un - done ; And God knows it proved too true ; for this bitter physic of Mr. Donne's dismission was not enough to purge out all Sir George's choler ; for he was not satisfied till Mr. Donne and his ...
... writ , John Donne , Anne Donne , Un - done ; And God knows it proved too true ; for this bitter physic of Mr. Donne's dismission was not enough to purge out all Sir George's choler ; for he was not satisfied till Mr. Donne and his ...
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... writ by him on Dr. Donne ; and is a known truth , though it be in verse : -Each altar had his fire- He kept his love , but not his object ; wit He did not banish , but transplanted it ; Taught it both time and place , and brought it ...
... writ by him on Dr. Donne ; and is a known truth , though it be in verse : -Each altar had his fire- He kept his love , but not his object ; wit He did not banish , but transplanted it ; Taught it both time and place , and brought it ...
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... writ on his sick - bed ; herein imitating the holy patriarchs , who were wont to build their altars in that place where they had received their blessings . This sickness brought him so near to the gates of death , and he saw the grave ...
... writ on his sick - bed ; herein imitating the holy patriarchs , who were wont to build their altars in that place where they had received their blessings . This sickness brought him so near to the gates of death , and he saw the grave ...
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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.