 | George Herbert - 1885 - 370 pages
...spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in a world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. Thou often didst with academic praise Melt and dissolve my rage. I tool; thy sweetened pill, till I... | |
 | George Herbert - 1885 - 408 pages
...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 to change my life. la Yet, for I threaten'd oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age, Thou often didst with... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...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 to change my life. " Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age ; Thou often didst with... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1888 - 296 pages
...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, B'jfore I had the power to change my life. " Vet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simpering... | |
 | 1890 - 830 pages
...the town, Thou didst betray j^e to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. "Yet, though thou tronblest me, I must be meek; In weakness must be stout. Well, I will change the... | |
 | Jane Frances Mary Carter - 1892 - 374 pages
...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 to change my life." Was it in some crisis of this struggle that he first met Ferrar, and formed with him in that one interview... | |
 | John Jeremiah Daniell - 1893 - 348 pages
...successit Georgius Herbert." Thus, as he sadly complains in the Temple — " I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life." He loved his books — his life was in his learning — he ascended the heights of scholastic honour.... | |
 | 1893 - 352 pages
...successit Georgius Herbert." Thus, as he sadly complains in the Temple — " I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life." He loved his books — his life was in his learning — he ascended the heights of scholastic honour.... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Vernon Blackburn - 1895 - 344 pages
...passages of his life, in which he says,— Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town : Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And...strife, Before I had the power to change my life. Yet, for I threaten'd oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age ; Thou often didst with academic... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 308 pages
...spirit rather took The way that makes the town, Thou did'st 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 to change my life. Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age, Thou often did'st with academic... | |
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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. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. 
