 My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but...  Biographia evangelica - Page 296by Erasmus Middleton - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 pages
...ELIZABETHAN PROSE. 151 When I lost the freedom of my cell (he said), which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and opposition of this place; and, indeed, God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study... | |
 | William Macdonald Sinclair - 1896 - 408 pages
...this purpose : ' My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college -r yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and opposition of this place ; and ijndeed, God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...he wrote to the Archbishop, " when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ;...me for contentions, but for study and quietness." His desire, he says, was to keep himself in peace and privacy, to behold God's blessing spring out... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...to the Archbishop, " My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found y repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in...Dryden added, " I will not say, ' The teal of God' My Lord, my particular contests with Mr. Travers here have proved the more unpleasant to me, because... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1901 - 524 pages
...to this purpose : ' My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my College, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage :...intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. My Lord, my particular contests with Mr. Travers here have proved the more unpleasant to me, because... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college ; yet I found some degree of it in my 28o quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise...oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did nut intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. And, my lord, my particular contests here... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...temper and aim : MY LORD — -When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college ; yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ;...God and nature did not intend me for contentions, hut for study and ([iiietnes.s. And, my lord, my particular contests here with Mr Travers have proved... | |
 | Vernon Staley - England - 1907 - 250 pages
...the Archbishop he wrote : " When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college ; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage :...intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness. My Lord, my particular contests with Mr. Travers here have proved the more unpleasant to me, because... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1922 - 96 pages
...first four books, in 1594 when he had retired frorrrthe ]Vtastership of the Temple at his own request, "weary of the noise and oppositions of this place...me for contentions, but for study and quietness." The opportunity for study and quietness he found first in his Rectory of Boscombe near Amesbury (1591-1595)... | |
 | John Bruce Williamson - Bar associations - 1925 - 726 pages
...living. " I am weary," he wrote to Archbishop Whitgift when seeking a transfer to another living, " of the noise and oppositions of this place ; and indeed...me for contentions, but for study and quietness." 2 Hooker's bust may be seen to-day in the choir of the Temple Church, supported by a bracket modelled... | |
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