 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 pages
...ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. JOHN DONNE. BORN 1573; DIED 1631. THE life and character of Donne have been made familiar to his countrymen... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend : And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book, or friend. This man is freed from servile bands,...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. StR JOHN DAVtES was born at Chisgrove, Wiltshlre, in 1570. His father was a tanner. In 15S5, he entered... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 240 pages
...pray More of his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. X.XIV. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1836 - 256 pages
...pray More of his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. XiXIV. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on rny birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen hook, or friend. This man is freed from servile hands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall : Lord of himself,...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR JOHN DA vies was born at Chisgrove, Wiltshire, in l570. His father was a tanner. In l585, he entered... | |
 | 1836 - 596 pages
...and at the feast of his own spreading. Happy the man who can say with Sir Henry Wootton, that he is " Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all." But where is that man to be found ? that greatest of all heroes, who can win laurels on the field of... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...oppressors great: Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertain the harmless day With a religious book or friend :...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. THE wing of Time passes lightly over the cheek and the brow, unconscious of the ravages of misery and... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pages
...his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man, from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. 4 This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of 'lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. 411. CM ANONYMOUi. The True Richest Ps. 37. WITH mines of wealth are sinners poor, Unblessing and unblessed... | |
 | 1837 - 550 pages
...his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man, from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. 4 This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not bf'lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. 411. CM ANONYMOUI. The True Riches. Ps. 37. WITH mines... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...ruin, make oppressors great. " Who Gud doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book...vanities of the world," which is not to be found in the Reliquia. Mr Ellis assigns it to Sir Kenelm Digby, who is said to be given as the author in the... | |
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