The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist: Secular poetryprivate circulation, 1871 - English literature |
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... Truth more than he dare love his friend or honour any man , must assert for those who ranged themselves on the side of the Common- wealth , and sorrowfully and out of the very depths of prayer pronounced against the unhappy king , co ...
... Truth more than he dare love his friend or honour any man , must assert for those who ranged themselves on the side of the Common- wealth , and sorrowfully and out of the very depths of prayer pronounced against the unhappy king , co ...
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... truths do rest , Which we are toiling all our lives to find , In darkness lost , the darkness of the grave ; Thou , over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day , a Master o'er a Slave , A Presence which is not to be put by ; Thou ...
... truths do rest , Which we are toiling all our lives to find , In darkness lost , the darkness of the grave ; Thou , over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day , a Master o'er a Slave , A Presence which is not to be put by ; Thou ...
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... truths that wake , To perish never ; Which neither listlessness , nor mad endeavour , Nor Man nor Boy , Nor all that is at enmity with joy , Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be ...
... truths that wake , To perish never ; Which neither listlessness , nor mad endeavour , Nor Man nor Boy , Nor all that is at enmity with joy , Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be ...
Page xci
... truth , that they are but painted " . This is plainly fetched from Herbert's " Rose " : " Press me not to take more pleausre In this world of sugar'd lies , And to use a larger measure Than my strict yet welcome size . First , there is ...
... truth , that they are but painted " . This is plainly fetched from Herbert's " Rose " : " Press me not to take more pleausre In this world of sugar'd lies , And to use a larger measure Than my strict yet welcome size . First , there is ...
Page xcvi
... truth must be spoken as meeting the preposterous claim for him of higher poetic power than Vaughan's . Then in another aspect , I believe that the Silurist with all his spontaneity , as of a Nightingale , spent more time in fining and ...
... truth must be spoken as meeting the preposterous claim for him of higher poetic power than Vaughan's . Then in another aspect , I believe that the Silurist with all his spontaneity , as of a Nightingale , spent more time in fining and ...
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