Walton's Lives of dr. John Donne, sir Henry Wotton, mr. Richard Hooker, mr. George Herbert, and dr. Robert Sanderson. With a memoir of Izaak Walton by W. Dowling

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Page 29 - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls, to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no...
Page 55 - Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I have...
Page 130 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise...
Page 322 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 27 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you : I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you.

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