Homes of Old English WritersHaughton&Company, 1873 - 284 pages |
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Aldwinkle amidst ancient Arminian beautiful Bishop blessed Broadwindsor Bromsgrove called chancel chapel character charm Christ Christian church Cranford devotion Diptford Divine Donne Donne's dust English Exeter faith father favourite feeling Flavel Fuller George Hakewill give God's grace grave hallowed happy hath Heanton Punchardon heart heaven hills Holborn holy honour Howe's Hugh Latimer John Donne John Flavel John Horn King labour Latimer learning light linger live look Lord memory mind Mitcham monument never noble Old Bolingbroke old English once parish passed pastor peace plaintive pleasant pleasure poor prayer preacher preaching pulpit Puritan quiet reverent rich sacred scene seemed sermons shadow side silent sometimes sorrow soul spirit style taste things Thomas Fuller thou thought Thurcaston Totnes truth turned unto venerable village voice walls Waltham
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Page vii - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 9 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 53 - Come, live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Page 70 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 91 - And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear; beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom: Grant this, O Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only Mediator and Advocate.
Page 188 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 55 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by ? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 173 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 105 - Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
Page 71 - I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.