 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...shall cheer my breast; and both so twine, Till ev'n his beams sing, and my music shine. MAN. [HEREERT.] MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man 1 to whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is ev'ry thing ; And more. He is a tree, yet bears... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...hahitation, But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stalely hath there heen, Or can he, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is ev'ry thing ; And more. He is a tree, yet hears no fruit. A heast ; yet is, or should he more ; Reasou... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 402 pages
...silk-twist let down from heav'n to me, Did both conduct and teach me, how by it To climb to thee. MAN. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay. For man is ev'ry thing, And more : he is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be more. Reason... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 pages
...silk-twist let down from heav'n to me, Did both conduct and teach me, how by it To climb to thee. MAN. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay. For man is ev'ry thing, And more : he is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be more. Reason... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 406 pages
...my relief; With care and courage building me, Till I reach heaven, and much more, thee. LXVI. MAN. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is every thing, And more : He is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be more : Reason... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 408 pages
...my relief; With care and courage building me, Till I reach heaven, and much more, thee. LXVI. MAN. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is every thing, And more : He is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be more : Reason... | |
 | George Herbert - 1842 - 400 pages
...praise and my relief; With care and courage building me, Till I reach heaven — and, much more, thee. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is every thing And more. He is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be, more. Reason... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...popular religion, than all the books v/hich ever were written. MAN. BY CKOIICF. HERBERT, — BORN 1593. My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay ? For Man is everything And more. He is a tree, yet bears no fruit; A beast, yet is, or should be, more. Beason... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...for mother's work, and singing low While her tired husband and her children sleep. MAN. — Herbert. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is every thing, And more. He is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be, more. Reason... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...ho only considers its mighty burden of remote truth, and wonders how it has been brought so near ! My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, Hut he that means to dwell therein : What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is man... | |
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MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man ? to whose creation All things are in decay. 
