The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's LivesHilliard, 1832 |
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... never die , Who , after seventy ' s past and gone , Can all th ' assaults of age defy ; Is master still of so much youthful heat , A child so perfect and so sprightly to beget . BENSTEAD HANTS , March 10 , 1669-70 . SAM . WOODFORD . TO ...
... never die , Who , after seventy ' s past and gone , Can all th ' assaults of age defy ; Is master still of so much youthful heat , A child so perfect and so sprightly to beget . BENSTEAD HANTS , March 10 , 1669-70 . SAM . WOODFORD . TO ...
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... never expressing an earnestness in either of them , but a gravity suita- ble to the aged . And it is observed ( so far as in- quiry is able to look back at this distance of time ) that at his being a schoolboy , he was an early ...
... never expressing an earnestness in either of them , but a gravity suita- ble to the aged . And it is observed ( so far as in- quiry is able to look back at this distance of time ) that at his being a schoolboy , he was an early ...
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... never live to occasion any sorrow to so good a mother ; whom , he would of- ten say , he loved so dearly , that he would endeav- our to be good , even as much for her sake , as for his own . " As soon as he was perfectly recovered from ...
... never live to occasion any sorrow to so good a mother ; whom , he would of- ten say , he loved so dearly , that he would endeav- our to be good , even as much for her sake , as for his own . " As soon as he was perfectly recovered from ...
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... never known to be angry , or passionate , or extreme in any of his desires ; never heard to repine or dispute with Providence , but , by a quiet , gentle submission and resignation of his will to the wisdom of his Creator , bore the ...
... never known to be angry , or passionate , or extreme in any of his desires ; never heard to repine or dispute with Providence , but , by a quiet , gentle submission and resignation of his will to the wisdom of his Creator , bore the ...
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... never blemished with scof- fing , or the utterance of any conceit that bordered upon or might beget a thought of looseness in his hearers . Thus innocent and exemplary was his behaviour in his College ; and thus this good man continued ...
... never blemished with scof- fing , or the utterance of any conceit that bordered upon or might beget a thought of looseness in his hearers . Thus innocent and exemplary was his behaviour in his College ; and thus this good man continued ...
Términos y frases comunes
Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury begot behaviour Bemerton betwixt Bishop Bishop of Lincoln Bishop of London blessed Boothby Pannell Brownists Canterbury charity church clergy College command conscience continued Corpus Christi College Covenanters dear death declare desire discourse divine Duncon Earl Edwin Sandys excellent father Ferrar friendship gave George Herbert give God's grace happy hath heaven holy honor hope humble humility Jesus John Jewel John Whitgift King knew late learning letter lived Lord Majesty master meek ment mercy never occasion Oxford pardon parish Parliament piety poor posterity praise pray prayers preach printed prove Psalms quiet Quinquarticular Controversy reader reason rejoice Richard Hooker ROBERT SANDERSON Salisbury Sanderson sent sermons sins Sir Henry Savile sorrow soul tell testimony thee things thou thought tion told Travers truth unto virtue wife Woodnot writ
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Página 213 - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife — More plentiful than hope.
Página 33 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Página 177 - But above all, I will be sure to live well, because the virtuous life of a Clergyman is the most powerful eloquence to persuade all that see it to reverence and love, and at least to desire to live like him. And this I will do, because I know we live in an age that hath more need of good examples than precepts.
Página 198 - The poor man blessed him for it, and he blessed the poor man : and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him money to refresh both himself and his horse, and told him that, " if he loved himself, he should be merciful to his beast.
Página 94 - And after these days Elisabeth his wife conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Página 100 - I owe Thee a death, Lord, let it not be terrible, and then take Thine own time : I submit to it ; let not mine, O Lord, but let Thy will be done.
Página 137 - I have only seen him ; yet since he was, and was worthy to be, their friend, and very many of his have been mine, I judge it may not be unacceptable to those that knew any of them in their lives, or do now know them by mine or their own writings, to see this conjunction of them after their deaths, without which many things that concerned them, and some things that concerned the age in which they lived, would be less perfect, and lost to posterity. For these reasons I have undertaken it ; and if I...
Página 150 - 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...
Página 33 - Betwixt Mr. Hooker and these his two pupils, there was a sacred friendship ; a friendship made up of religious principles, which increased daily by a similitude of inclinations to the same recreations and studies ; a friendship elemented in youth and in a university, free from self-ends, which the friendships of age usually are not.
Página 105 - ... of God for any other reason, but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.