| William Wordsworth - 1889 - 292 pages
...There was never yet the child of any promise," etc. Knight quotes Henry Vaughan, Silex Scintillans : " Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel...for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught lInt a white, celestial thought ; 9 When yet I had not walked abuve NOTES. My Razing soul would dwell... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1889 - 394 pages
...heart is broken. H. Vaughan CII THE RETREAT HAPPY those early days, when l Shined in my Angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love,... | |
| 1890 - 332 pages
...guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. HENKY VAUGHAN, CVII. 1621—1695. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel...Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two, from my first... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1891 - 328 pages
...glaunce most gladly dye. THE RETREATE. i APPY those early dayes, when I Shin'd in my Angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught ray soul to fancy ought But a white, celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or... | |
| George MacDonald - 1892 - 266 pages
...day. Hear what Henry Vaughan says : — Happy those early dayes, when I Shin'd in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two, from my first... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 pages
...honor more. — Sir Richard Lovelace. THE RETREATE. Happy those early dayes, when I Shined in my Angell infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1893 - 180 pages
...well expressed by a good English poet, who says, as he looks back regretfully to his childhood — Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound ; But felt through all this fleshly dress... | |
| James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 pages
...yours. — GEORGE HERBERT. 4THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two, from my first... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pages
...intellectual day T, TI. VAUGHAN. THE RETREAT. Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two, from my first... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1896 - 504 pages
...part, As innocent as now thou art. R. CORBET. LXXIV THE RETREAT HAPPY those early dayes, when I Shin'd in my angel infancy ! Before I understood this place...Appointed for my second race. Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love,... | |
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