 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
 | John Bunyan - 1909 - 454 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...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, Wherewith... | |
 | 1866 - 1214 páginas
...towards God and heaven. For my own part, my meaning, dear mother, Is, in these focnefs, to declare iny resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and erer consecrated to God's glory." To this resolution he faithfully adhered. George Herbert may be looked... | |
 | George Herbert, George Herbert Palmer - 1915 - 520 páginas
...English poetry. In these Sonnets, Walton reports him as saying, I declare my resolution to be thai my poor Abilities in Poetry 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.... | |
 | 1906 - 872 páginas
...years. So early as 1610 he wrote two sonnets to his mother in which he declared his resolution that his "poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." It should be his aim to "reprove the vanity of those many Love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated... | |
 | 1906 - 938 páginas
...years. So early as 1610 he wrote two sonnets to his mother in which he declared his resolution that his "poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." It should be his aim to "reprove the vanity of those many Love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated... | |
 | Joan Bennett - 168 páginas
...declared that he did not need the help of the muses ' to reprove the vanity of those many love poems that are daily writ, and consecrated to Venus; nor...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.' The sonnets show the influence of Donne; the first begins with a question, the second with a statement,... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 páginas
...declares his intention not to write love poetry. He encloses two sonnets, in which he declares his "resolution to be that my poor abilities in poetry...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." Here is the first of them. It is all, all, questions: My God, where is that ancient heat towards Thee... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 páginas
...writ that look towards God and Heaven. For my own part my meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets,20 to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities...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 heat21 towards thee,... | |
 | Hugh Underhill - 1992 - 360 páginas
...content.17 A devotional poet - one thinks of what George Herbert is said to have written to his mother: 'my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory' -- may offer his poems to the world as a testimony of his faith, and may even, while composing, feel... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1995 - 420 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...Abilities in Poetry shall be all, and ever consecrated to Gods glory; and beg you to receive this as one testimony. My God, where is that ancient heat towards... | |
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