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Page 51
... Henry Vaughan : To His Books . By sucking you , the wise , like bees , do grow Healing and rich though this they do most slow , Because most choicely ; for as great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs , or more : And the great ...
... Henry Vaughan : To His Books . By sucking you , the wise , like bees , do grow Healing and rich though this they do most slow , Because most choicely ; for as great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs , or more : And the great ...
Page 73
... Henry Vaughan : Christ's Nativity . CHURCH- see Cathedral , Clergyman , Religion . Then might ye see Cowls , hoods , and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags ; then reliques , beads , Indulgences , dispenses . pardons ...
... Henry Vaughan : Christ's Nativity . CHURCH- see Cathedral , Clergyman , Religion . Then might ye see Cowls , hoods , and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags ; then reliques , beads , Indulgences , dispenses . pardons ...
Page 109
... Henry VI . Act ii . Sc . 2 . Look , the morn , in russet mantle clad , Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill ... Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons . St. 20 . Day is the Child of Time , And Day must cease to be : But Night is ...
... Henry VI . Act ii . Sc . 2 . Look , the morn , in russet mantle clad , Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill ... Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons . St. 20 . Day is the Child of Time , And Day must cease to be : But Night is ...
Page 179
... Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons . St. 8 . Where is honor , Innate and precept - strengthen'd , ' tis the rock Of faith connubial : where it is not - where Light thoughts are lurking , or the vanities Of worldly pleasure rankle in the ...
... Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons . St. 8 . Where is honor , Innate and precept - strengthen'd , ' tis the rock Of faith connubial : where it is not - where Light thoughts are lurking , or the vanities Of worldly pleasure rankle in the ...
Page 286
... Henry Vaughan : To His Books . Have we of books as bees of herbs or more . 2681 LIES- -see Defiance , Fiction . The " Lie circumstantial , " and the " Lie direct . " 2682 Shaks .: As You Like It . Act v . Sc . 4 . These lies are like ...
... Henry Vaughan : To His Books . Have we of books as bees of herbs or more . 2681 LIES- -see Defiance , Fiction . The " Lie circumstantial , " and the " Lie direct . " 2682 Shaks .: As You Like It . Act v . Sc . 4 . These lies are like ...
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