 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 536 pages
...must be meek, In weakness must be stout, Well, I will change my service, and go seek Some other master out : Ah, my dear God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not leave thee, if I love thee not. GH In this time of Mr. Herbert's attendance and expectation of some... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1906 - 416 pages
...be meek ; In weakness must be stout. Well, I will change the service, and go seek Some other master out. Ah, my dear God, though I am clean forgot, Let me not love Thee, if I love Thee not. BEGONE, DULL CARE. BEGONE, dull care ! I prythee begone from me : Begone, dull care ! thou and I shall... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1909 - 454 pages
...must be meek, In weakness must be stout, Well, I will change my service, and go seek Some other master out ; Ah, my dear God ! though I am clean forgot,...time of Mr. Herbert's attendance and expectation of some good occcasion to remove from Cambridge to court, God, in whom there is an unseen chain of causes,... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Poetry - 1921 - 316 pages
...weaknesse must be stout. Well, I will change the service, and go seek Some other master out. Ah my deare God ! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. George Herbert. Jordan. WHo saves that fictions onely and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - Bishops - 1927 - 568 pages
...ruins. He prays God to enlarge and repair it. 6. paruane] se. 'miseria.' Cf. G. Herbert Temple xviii : 'Ah, my dear God, though I am clean forgot, Let me not love Thee, if I love Thee not.' 7. mlaerationes] renders okrtpfíoí (DVplTl) in Ps. xxxix 12 (xl u) etc. The use of abstract substantives... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1928 - 140 pages
...must be meek, In weakness must be stout, Well, I will change my service, and go seek Some other master out; Ah, my dear God! though I am clean forgot, Let...time of Mr Herbert's attendance and expectation of some good occasion to remove from Cambridge to Court, God, in whom there is an unseen chain of causes,... | |
 | Books - 1928 - 716 pages
...completely as an anchorite of the Thebaid, in the world-forgetting passion of a lover for his love. Ah, my dear God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. To feel the full force of this isolation, it is enough to turn back to the Elizabethans — not only... | |
 | Poetry - 1981 - 206 pages
...which the punishment is made to fit the crime, but in which sin and punishment are one: "Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, / Let me not love thee, if I love thec not" (lines 65-66). Similarly, in "Sinne I," Herbert's phrase, "sorrow dogging sinne," implies... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 246 pages
...must be stout. Well, I will change the service, and go seek Some other master out. Ah my deare Godl though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. In The Collar the same problem is approached from a slightly different angle. 39 I struck the board,... | |
 | Debora K. Shuger, Renaissance Society of America - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 300 pages
...just that God requires an almost inhuman submission, an abjuration of interest and prudential motive: "Ah my dear God! though I am clean forgot, / Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. " 69 Yet in several poems one also finds the rueful acknowledgment that this submission itself conceals... | |
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Ah, my dear God ! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. 
