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... moved more briskly to the tune of the good man's blessing . His main recreation continued to be music , and his joy in it seemed to increase as he neared the glorious region where it is married for ever to perfect holiness and bliss ...
... moved more briskly to the tune of the good man's blessing . His main recreation continued to be music , and his joy in it seemed to increase as he neared the glorious region where it is married for ever to perfect holiness and bliss ...
Page xix
... moved . Yet , Herbert , although his mind wrought in a superinduced atmosphere of mysticism , and although he is commonly classed with those whom Dr Johnson calls the metaphysical poets , was by no means naturally or generally a mystic ...
... moved . Yet , Herbert , although his mind wrought in a superinduced atmosphere of mysticism , and although he is commonly classed with those whom Dr Johnson calls the metaphysical poets , was by no means naturally or generally a mystic ...
Page xxii
... moving in brisk , lively , and bird - like measures , and now uttering loud pæans and crashes of victorious sound . It has been truly said of him , that he is " inspired by the Bible , as its vaticinators were inspired by God . " It is ...
... moving in brisk , lively , and bird - like measures , and now uttering loud pæans and crashes of victorious sound . It has been truly said of him , that he is " inspired by the Bible , as its vaticinators were inspired by God . " It is ...
Page xxiv
... moves to the moon ; his heart , as well as cheek , is coloured by the sun ; his advancement as a species bears a distinct relation to the changes of the earth's surface and to its place in the heavens ; he is the representa- tive of the ...
... moves to the moon ; his heart , as well as cheek , is coloured by the sun ; his advancement as a species bears a distinct relation to the changes of the earth's surface and to its place in the heavens ; he is the representa- tive of the ...
Page xxv
... move , and fountains flow . " Many of Herbert's modern admirers , while quoting the rest of these verses on " Man , " omit its last stanza , although it seems to contain the moral of the wondrous Fable he had told , the solution of the ...
... move , and fountains flow . " Many of Herbert's modern admirers , while quoting the rest of these verses on " Man , " omit its last stanza , although it seems to contain the moral of the wondrous Fable he had told , the solution of the ...
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Page xiii - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page xxxi - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Page 195 - Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Page 160 - All wasted ? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Page xxiv - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Page 167 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Page vi - Ireland, who was then chief master of that school ; where the beauties of his pretty behaviour and wit shined and became so eminent and lovely in this his innocent age, that he seemed to be marked out for piety, and to become the care of Heaven, and of a particular good angel to guard and guide him.
Page 88 - My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live, And grumble oft that they have more in me Than he that curbs them, being but one to five— Yet I love thee.
Page 18 - Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul ; mark the decay And growth of it. If, with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both. Since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
Page 37 - With Thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories : Then shall the fall further the flight in me.