 | a.b. grosart - 1876 - 606 páginas
...Thus thinne and lean, without a fence or friend, 3 5 I was blown thorough with ev'ry storm and winde. Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that...the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingring book, 1 And wrap me in a gown ; 40 I was entangled in the world of strife Before I had the power to change... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...no month but May : But with my years sorrow did twist and grow, And made a party unawares for woe. uty liv'd and died as flowers do now, Before these bastard signs of fair were borne, Or durst i lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in a world of strife, Before I had the power... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1878 - 302 páginas
...breeches and shiny coat the raiment, in just eyes, of a martyr. " Whereas," groans poor George Herbert, " Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in a world of strife Before I had the power... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 páginas
...the crisis in his career, when a Divine Hand guided him into the path adapted to his genius : — " Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town : Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown : I was entangled in a world of strife Before I had the power... | |
 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 páginas
...than I. Thus thin and lean, without a fence or friend, I was blown through with every storm and wind. Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power... | |
 | George Herbert - 1881 - 604 páginas
...than I. Thus, thin and lean, without a fence or friend, I was blown through with every storm and wind. Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power... | |
 | George Herbert - 1883 - 262 páginas
...than I. Thus thm and lean without a fence or friend, I was blown through with every storm and wind. Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power... | |
 | Robert Ornsby - 1884 - 374 páginas
...addressed the grand and austere discipline they desired to restore in the words of George Herbert : — Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that...betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. Mr. Hope felt, as later Oxford reformers have felt, that colleges were intended for something higher... | |
 | Robert Ornsby - 1884 - 376 páginas
...addressed the grand and austere discipline they desired to restore in the words of George Herbert : — Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Tin in didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. 186 MEMOIRS OF JR HOPE-SCOTT. CHAP.... | |
 | George Herbert - 1885 - 370 páginas
...I : Thus, thin and lean, without a fence or friend, I was blown through with ev'ry storm and wind. Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book And wrapt me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power... | |
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Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. 
