The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson, Volume 1At the Clarendon Press, 1805 |
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... still caft fuch a luftre , as envy or the ruft of time fhall never darken . From my father I have also heard all the circumftances of the plot to defame him ; and how Sir Edwin Sandys outwit- ted his accusers , and gained their confef ...
... still caft fuch a luftre , as envy or the ruft of time fhall never darken . From my father I have also heard all the circumftances of the plot to defame him ; and how Sir Edwin Sandys outwit- ted his accusers , and gained their confef ...
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... still live to be patterns of apoftolical charity , and of more than human patience . I have faid this , because I have occafion to mention one of them in my following * Anno 1608 . discourse ; difcourfe ; namely , Dr. Morton , the most ...
... still live to be patterns of apoftolical charity , and of more than human patience . I have faid this , because I have occafion to mention one of them in my following * Anno 1608 . discourse ; difcourfe ; namely , Dr. Morton , the most ...
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... still fhews the beauty of his mind by fo liberal a hand , as if this were an age in which to - morrow were to care for itself . have taken a pleasure in giving the reader a fhort but true character of this good man , my friend , from ...
... still fhews the beauty of his mind by fo liberal a hand , as if this were an age in which to - morrow were to care for itself . have taken a pleasure in giving the reader a fhort but true character of this good man , my friend , from ...
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... ftrangers , whofe learning or bufi- nefs occafioned their stay in this nation . He was much importuned by many friends to make his conftant refidence in London ; London ; but he still denied it , having fettled DR . JOHN DONNE . 29.
... ftrangers , whofe learning or bufi- nefs occafioned their stay in this nation . He was much importuned by many friends to make his conftant refidence in London ; London ; but he still denied it , having fettled DR . JOHN DONNE . 29.
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Izaak Walton. London ; but he still denied it , having fettled his dear wife and children at Mi- cham , and near fome friends that were bountiful to them and him ; for they , God knows , needed it and that you may the better now judge of ...
Izaak Walton. London ; but he still denied it , having fettled his dear wife and children at Mi- cham , and near fome friends that were bountiful to them and him ; for they , God knows , needed it and that you may the better now judge of ...
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Page 344 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near ; and though I have by His grace loved Him in my youth, and feared Him in mine age, and laboured to have a conscience void of offence to Him, and to all men, yet if Thou, O Lord, be extreme to mark what I have. done amiss, who can abide it...
Page 108 - He was of stature moderately tall; of a straight and equallyproportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind.
Page 101 - And now, having brought him through the many labyrinths and perplexities of a various life, even to the gates of death and the grave, my desire is, he may rest till I have told my reader, that I have seen many pictures of him, in several habits, and at several ages, and in several postures. And I now mention this, because I have seen one picture of him, drawn by a curious...
Page 338 - Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Page 229 - ... consider, research, and determine, what is needful to be known concerning him. For I knew him not in his life, and must therefore not only look back to his death, (now...
Page 50 - Austin ; for I think none was so like him before his conversion; none so like St. Ambrose after it: and if his youth had the infirmities of the one, his age had the excellencies of the other; the learning and holiness of both.
Page 345 - God hath heard my daily petitions, for I am at peace with all men, and he is at peace with me; and from. that blessed assurance I feel that inward joy, which this world can neither give nor take from me: my conscience beareth me this witness, and this witness makes the thoughts of death joyful.
Page xviii - ... too probable, we had wanted both, which had been a prejudice to all lovers of honour and ingenious learning. And let me not leave my friend sir Henry without this testimony added to yours ; that he was a man of as florid a wit and as elegant a pen, as any former (or ours which in that kind is a most excellent) age hath ever produced.
Page 254 - And that this was really his judgment, did appear in his future writings, and in all the actions of his life. Nor was this excellent man a stranger to the more light and airy parts of learning, as...
Page 344 - ... deep in contemplation, and not inclinable to discourse; which gave the Doctor occasion to require his present thoughts. To which he replied 'That he was meditating the number and nature of Angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which, peace could not be in Heaven: and Oh! that it might be so on Earth!