 | Henry Vaughan - 1856 - 330 pages
...first, that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least ; and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time. After him followed diverse,... | |
 | George Herbert, Robert Aris Willmott - 1855 - 366 pages
...first that, with any effectual success, attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least; and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time." * Herbert belongs to that... | |
 | 1905 - 880 pages
...first that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least." Nor need we be disturbed over the small quantity of sacred verse included in The Temple. Herbert may... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 372 pages
...first that, with any eifectual success, attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least ; and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time." * Herbert belongs to... | |
 | 1863 - 658 pages
...that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was that blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life and...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least." * A discriminating critic of later timef speaks of him thus : " Herbert has, according to his degree,... | |
 | Karl Johann Philipp Spitta - 1863 - 332 pages
...have not overlooked the originality of Herbert, the reverence of Vaughan, (who said of Herbert, " His holy life and verse gained many pious converts, of whom I am least,") the quaintness of Quarles, the enthusiasm of Wither, the energy of Coleridge, nor the varied... | |
 | 1865 - 362 pages
...first that, with any effectual success, attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least; and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time." * Herbert belongs to that... | |
 | 1866 - 628 pages
...Herbert. He himself, in his preface to his ' Silex Scintillans,' speaks of this his great master, as ' the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life and verse gained many pious converts, of whom,' he adds, ' I am the least.' This preface is dated September, 1654. Herbert had then been dead eighteen... | |
 | George Herbert - 1871 - 362 pages
...first that, with any effectual success, attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least ; and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time." * Herbert belongs to... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 328 pages
...first, that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life...gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least ; and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time. After him followed diverse,... | |
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The first, that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life and verse gained many pious Converts, (of whom I am the least) and gave the first check to a... 
