 | Ruth Hall - 1900 - 352 pages
...she could answer, he brushed past her and ran up the stairs to his room. CHAPTER XXV TONSURED — " And wrapt me in a gown : I was entangled in a world of strife, Before I had power to change my life." GEOEGE HERBERT. DURING the next few days Neal sought persistently for an... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1901 - 524 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 threaten'd oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age; Thou often didst with academic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 396 pages
...stay so. What you do with a gun '11 stay." Page I54, note I. This was the remark of his next ncignbor on the other side, a laborer. Page I55, note I. Here...long-sitting reformer visitors, from the journal of 1842, yet showing a magnanimity to the borers which he was fighting on his peach-trees in those days.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 392 pages
...illusions of the senses which they cannot interpret, the Maia of the Oriental philosophers. Page Ij5, note 2. These lines are borrowed from George Herbert's...long-sitting reformer visitors, from the journal of 1 84.2, yet showing a magnanimity to the borers which he was fighting on his peach-trees in those days.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 536 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 ofi the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age ; Thou often didst with academic... | |
 | Edward Oscar Dyer - 1903 - 352 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." George Herbert. A PASTOR OF THE CHURCH MILITANT The parish of the Congregational church in Sharon,... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 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. VOL. ill p Yet, for 1 threaten'd oft the siege to raise, Not simp'ring all my age, Thou often didst... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 396 pages
...Page I54, note I. This was the remark of his next neighbor on the other side, a laborer. Page I5j, note I. Here come in favorite images: that the planet...long-sitting reformer visitors, from the journal of 1842, yet showing a magnanimity to the borers which he was fighting on his peach-trees in those days.... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 814 pages
...the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, Aud wrap me in a gown ; I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. Now I am here, what Thou wilt do with me None of my books will show : I read, and sigh, and wish I... | |
 | George Herbert, George Herbert Palmer - 1905 - 506 pages
...the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingring book And wrap me in a gown. 40 I was entangled in the world of strife Before I had the power to change my life. Yet, for I threatned oft the siege to raise, Not simpring all mine age, Thou often didst with Academick... | |
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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. 
