The English Works of George Herbert: Newly Arranged and Annotated and Considered in Relation to His Life, المجلد 1

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Houghton Mifflin, 1905 - 538 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 102 - Upon Thine altar burnt? Cannot Thy love Heighten a spirit to sound out Thy praise As well as any she? Cannot Thy Dove Outstrip their Cupid easily in flight?
الصفحة 104 - The first, that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life and verse gained many pious Converts, (of whom I am the least) and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time.
الصفحة 209 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us: whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith...
الصفحة 102 - For my own part, my meaning (dear mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all, and ever consecrated to God's glory : and I beg you to receive this as one testimony.
الصفحة 71 - TO HIS VERY GOOD FRIEND, MR. GEORGE HERBERT. THE pains * that it pleased you to take about some of my writings, I cannot forget ; which did put me in mind to dedicate to you this poor exercise of my sickness. Besides, it being my manner for dedications, to choose those that I hold most fit for the argument, I thought, that in respect of divinity and poesy met, whereof the one is the matter, the other the style of this little writing, I could not make better choice : so, with signification of my love...
الصفحة 125 - Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. Who would have thought my shrivell'd heart Could have recover'd greenness?
الصفحة 167 - Sir, I pray deliver this little book to my dear brother Ferrar, and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master ; in whose service I have now found perfect freedom : desire him to read it ; and then, if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul, let it be made public : if not, let him burn it ; for I and it are less than the least of God's mercies.
الصفحة 110 - The wanton lover in a curious strain Can praise his fairest fair ; And with quaint metaphors her curled hair Curl o're again : Thou art my lovelinesse, my life, my light, Beautie alone to me : Thy bloudy death and undeserv'd, makes thee Pure red and white.
الصفحة 401 - God, how they have been burnt by thousands, and have endured such other tortures, as the very mention of them might beget amazement ; but their fiery trials have had an end : and yours (which, praised be God, are less) are not like to continue long. I beseech you, let such thoughts as these moderate your present fear and sorrow ; and know, that if any of yours should prove a...
الصفحة 317 - ... the pastor. On the other side, if it be unlawful to open faults, no benefit or advantage can make it lawful ; for we must not do evil that good may come of it. Now the Parson, taking this point to task, (which is so exceeding useful, and hath taken so deep root that it seems the very life and substance of conversation,) hath proceeded thus far in the discussing of it. Faults are either notorious or private. Again, notorious faults are either such as are made known by common fame ; and of these...

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George Herbert, remembered as one of the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, was born on April 3, 1593 in Montgomery, Wales. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. Herbert was a Fellow of Trinity, a public orator, the canon of Lincoln Cathedral and a rector in Bemerton. Herbert died on March 1, 1633. On his deathbed, he gave a manuscript of verses called The Temple to his friend, Nicolas Ferrar. Although Herbert wanted the manuscript burned, Ferrar had it published. The poems contained in the manuscript exalt God, but Herbert believed he was committing a sin of pride by creating an artistic work.

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