However, I need not their help to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems, that are daily writ, and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are writ, that look towards God and Heaven. For my own part, my meaning — dear Mother — is, in... Lives of the English Sacred Poets - Página 247de Robert Aris Willmott - 1839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Herbert - 1851 - 464 páginas
...up their habitations. However, I need not their help to reprove the vanity of those many love poems that are daily writ, and consecrated to Venus ; nor...poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory ; and I beg you to receive this as one testimony." My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee,... | |
| Edward Herbert (1st baron.) - 1853 - 534 páginas
...few are writ, that look towards God and heaven. For my own part, my meaning — dear mother— ris, in , these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all aud ever consecrated to God's glory : aud I beg you to receive this as one testimony." My God, when... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 páginas
...But I fear the heat of my late ague hath dried up those springs, by which scholars say the Muses use to take up their habitations. However, I need not...Poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory : and I beg you to receive this as one testimony." My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee,... | |
| 1905 - 880 páginas
...Herbert and in the development of English poetry. "In these sonnets," Walton reports him as saying, "I declare my resolution to be that my poor abilities...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." Herbert, thus early discovering himself to be a poet, here fixes the field most suitable to his genius.... | |
| 1861 - 792 páginas
...seventeen thus writing to his mother with some verses : " For my own part, my meaning is, in these sonncte, that my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." His charming biographer, Izoak Walton, says, that in the morning of his short day of life he seemed... | |
| Lewis Borrett White - 1864 - 232 páginas
...When only sixteen years of age, he wrote to his mother, sending her some sonnets he had composed : " My meaning, dear mother, is in these sonnets to declare...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." Well, indeed, was he enabled to carry out his resolution. DIVINE WORSHIP. WHEN once thy foot enters... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 páginas
...But I fear the heat of my late ague hath dried up those springs, by which scholars say the Muses use to take up their habitations. However, I need not...Poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory : and I beg you to receive this as one testimony." My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee,... | |
| Barbara Hutton - 1868 - 398 páginas
...his applying himself to serious study, and in a letter to his mother he declared his resolution, ' that my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.' He was seventeen at that time, and till he reached his twenty-second year remained at Cambridge, studying... | |
| William Allingham - 1873 - 764 páginas
...which she happily succeeded. In his first year at Cambridge we find George writing to his mother, ' my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory,' he finding the heathenism and lightness of the poets of the day very contrary to his mind. He encloses... | |
| Patricius Walker (pseud. [i.e. William Allingham.]), William Allingham - 1873 - 370 páginas
...which she happily succeeded. In his first year at Cambridge we find George writing to his mother, ' my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory,' he finding the heathenism and lightness of the poets of the day very contrary to his mind. He encloses... | |
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