At Vacant HoursThis richly annotated collection of previously unpublished verse by Thomas St Nicholas (1602-1668), an important puritan lawyer, parliamentarian and contemporary of John Milton, provides a memorable record of English life during the crucial middle decades of the seventeenth century. |
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255 260 265 Resort to profane interludes , And come and go and be defended When they begin till they be ended ; But if poor harmless souls shall venture Into some private house to enter In lesser numbers , without noise , Thirsting but ...
255 260 265 Resort to profane interludes , And come and go and be defended When they begin till they be ended ; But if poor harmless souls shall venture Into some private house to enter In lesser numbers , without noise , Thirsting but ...
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And let my sickness help well to destroy Those worms of sin that do my soul annoy , And make my plants of grace to grow and thrive , That I may not be dead and seem to live . Teach me to read thy mercy , and to own Thy kindness ...
And let my sickness help well to destroy Those worms of sin that do my soul annoy , And make my plants of grace to grow and thrive , That I may not be dead and seem to live . Teach me to read thy mercy , and to own Thy kindness ...
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31 animula ] St Nicholas's address to his own soul ( anima ) , using the affectionately diminutive form of the word , followed in line 35 by a reference to an inn in which the soul is temporarily lodged , seems to recall the Emperor ...
31 animula ] St Nicholas's address to his own soul ( anima ) , using the affectionately diminutive form of the word , followed in line 35 by a reference to an inn in which the soul is temporarily lodged , seems to recall the Emperor ...
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The Poems 162468 PAGE | xi |
Thomas St Nicholas 160268 | xxiv |
The Birmingham Manuscript MS BUL 5iv23 | xxxii |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | At Vacant Hours |
| Autor | Thomas St Nicholas |
| Editor | H N Davies |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Bloomsbury Academic, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1902459326, 9781902459325 |
| N.º de páginas | 492 páginas |
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