The Lives of Doctor John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert and Doctor SandersonDuffield, 1906 - 320 pages |
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Albertus Morton Almighty appointed Archbishop behaviour believe Bemerton betwixt Bishop blessed Christ Christian Church clergy commend conscience Corpus Christi College dear death declare desire discourse divine Donne Donne's Earl EDITED employment endeavours England Ernest Rhys Eton College excellent Farrer father favour forbear friendship gave George Herbert give God's grace happy hath Havelock Ellis heaven holy honour humble humility Introduction Jesus JOHN DONNE John Whitgift knew late learning letter lived London Lord Majesty master meek mercy nation never Nicholas Wotton occasion Oxford parish Parliament Paternoster Square persuaded piety poor Portrait praise pray prayers preach present printed Queen reason Richard Hooker Robert Sanderson sacred Sanderson sent sermon Sir Henry Wotton sorrow soul spirit T. W. Rolleston tell the reader testimony thee things thou thought unto virtue Walton wife writ write
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Page 24 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 230 - He had disparaged himself by so ditty an employment," his answer was, "That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should pass by that place: for if...
Page 24 - 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 241 - And with those words he breathed forth his divine soul, without any apparent disturbance: Mr. Woodnot, and Mr. Bostock, attending his last breath, and closing his eyes. Thus he lived, and thus he died like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of alms-deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life...
Page 39 - 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,
Page 57 - seems to breathe faintly, and posterity shall look upon " it as a kind of artificial miracle.
Page 204 - 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. When winds and waves rise highest I am sure, This A-nchor keeps my faith, that, me secure.
Page 21 - Mr. Donne's opinion the next day. For he then affirmed this vision with a more deliberate and so confirmed a confidence that he inclined Sir Robert to a faint belief that the vision was true.
Page 43 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.