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" Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. "
Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick - Page 272
edited by - 1876 - 391 pages
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...hath treble wrong, When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue. Shakspeare. CCCCXXXVIII. CCCCXXXIX. Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand, Fear not to touch the best For truth must be Ihy warrant ; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. * * * Tell...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...for your friend is so much your second-self, that he w;)l judge too like you. — Pope. CCCCXXXIX. Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand, Fear not to touch the best For truth must be thy warrant ; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. • * * Tell...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...spright did tremble nil for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief! THE SOUL'S ERRAND.3 Go, Soul, the Body's guest, Upon a thankless errand...shines like painted wood ; Go, tell the Church it shows What's good, but does no good. If Court and Church reply, Give Court and Church the lie. Tell...
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History of North Carolina: with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 1

Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1857 - 274 pages
...probably think that the absence of compliment is less the fault of Raleigh than of human nature. " Go, soul ! the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand,...thy warrant. Go, since I 'needs must die, And give the world the lie. " Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood — Go, tell the Church...
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The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine:, Volume 14

Theology - 1857 - 600 pages
...the Scylla of continental Protestantism; we shall be safe, for God will be our refuge and strength. " Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand,...thy warrant ; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. ' Tell Zeal it lacks devotion, Tell Love it is but lust, Tell Time it is but motion,...
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Class Book of Poetry: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...delights, without curb to their modest And noble freedom. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618. The Soul's Errand. Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand...thy warrant; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give,...
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...being thus carried out after the lapse of years. THE SOUL'S ERRAND. [Attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh.] Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand...thy warrant ; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church it...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief I THE SOUL'S ERRAND.3 Go, Soul, the Body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ; Fear not to touch the best ; The truth shall bo thy warrant. Go, since I needs must die, And give them all the lie. Go, tell the Court it glows,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief! THE SOUL'S ERRAND.3 Go, Soul, the Body's guest, Upon a thankless errand...tell the Court it glows, And shines like painted wood j Go, tell the Church it shows What's good, but does no good. If Court and Church reply, Give Court...
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Evenings with the poets and sketches of their favourite scenes, by the ...

Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...heart a second lot, Then, if others share with me, Farewell her, whate'er she be 1 THE SOUL'S ERRAND. Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand,...thy warrant ; Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the Court it glows, And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Chnrch it...
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