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Page 82 - Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head, To work my mind when body's work 'a expired For then my thoughts (from far where I abide) Intend* a zealous pilgrimage to thee...
Page 180 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the...
Page 180 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 189 - My answer to them which trouble me is this : God commands me to do good unto all men ; to instruct the ignorant, reform the wicked, confirm the virtuous. Man commands me not to do this in another's parish ; that is, in effect, not to do it at all. If it be just to obey man rather than God, judge ye. " But," say they, " it is just that you submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake.
Page 189 - Man forbids me to do this in another's parish; that is, in effect, not to do it at all ; seeing I have now no parish of my own, nor probably ever shall. Whom, then, shall I hear, God or man? If it be just to obey man rather than God, judge you. A dispensation of the gospel is committed to me, and wo is me if I preach not the gospel.
Page 83 - Intend* a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see : Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new. Lo thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.
Page 189 - Man forbids me to do this, in another's parish ; that is, in effect, to do it at all ; seeing I have now no parish of my own, nor probably ever shall. Whom then shall I hear ? God or man ? If it be just to obey man rather than God, judge you. A dispensation of the Gospel is committed to' me, and woe is' me if I preach not the Gospel.
Page 121 - The father of our George was Richard Herbert, the son of Edward Herbert, Knight, the son of Richard Herbert, Knight, the son of the famous Sir Richard Herbert of Colebrook, in the county of Monmouth, Banneret, who was the youngest brother of that memorable William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, that lived in the reign of our King Edward the Fourth.
Page 155 - Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead : and when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber ; then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
Page 134 - Milesian, is said to be the first author of it; who used to say, that, for a man to know himself, is the hardest thing in the world. It was afterwards adopted by Chylon the Lacedemonian; and is one of those three precepts which Pliny affirms to have been consecrated at Delphos in golden letters. It was afterwards greatly admired, and frequently used by others;* till at length it acquired the authority of a divine oracle; and was...