 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1815 - 594 pages
...Teipsnm is an excellent poem, in opening the nature, faculties, and certain immortality of man's soul. But I must confess, after all, that next the scripture...savoury to me, as Mr. George Herbert's and Mr. George Sandy t's. I know that Gowley and others far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure ; but as Seneca... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1815 - 588 pages
...Teipsum is an excellent poem, in opening the nature, faculties, and certain immortality of man's soul. But I must confess, after all, that next the scripture...are none so savoury to me, as Mr. George Herbert's aad Mr. George Sandys's. I know that Gowley and others far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 328 pages
...teipsum' is an excellent poem, in opening the nature, faculties, and certain immortality of man's soul. " But I must confess, after all, that, next the Scripture...composure ; but as Seneca takes with me above all his con- temporaries, because he speaketh things by words, feelingly and seriously, like a man that is... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...gone," being offended with the negligent observance of the Sabbath. " But I must confess," he says, " after all, that next the Scripture Poems, there are none so savoury to me, as Mr. George Herbert's. I know that Cowley, and others, far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure ; but as Seneca takes... | |
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 406 pages
...Herbert by Baxter, who, in the preface to his Poetical Fragments (Lond. 1681) speaks thus : — " Next to the Scripture Poems, there are none so savoury to...Mr. George Herbert's and Mr. George Sandys's. I know thatCowley and others far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure ; But (as Seneca takes with me... | |
 | 1836 - 758 pages
...writing of our day. " Next to the scripture poems," says Baxter, " there are none so savoury to n% as Mr. George Herbert's and Mr. George Sandys's. I know that Cowley and others far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure ; but as Seneca takes with me above all his contemporaries,... | |
 | George Herbert - Christian poetry, English - 1838 - 402 pages
...Herbert by Baxter, who, in the preface to his Poetical Fragments (Lond. 1681) speaks thus : — " Next to the Scripture Poems, there are none so savoury to...George Sandys's. I know that Cowley and others far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure ; But (as Seneca takes with me above all his contemporaries,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...Baxter, in the preface to his Poems, which he dates London, at the Door of Eternity, says of him—" I know that Cowley and others far exceed Herbert in...composure. But (as Seneca takes with me above all his cotemporaries, because he speaketh things by words, feelingly and seriously, like a man that is past... | |
 | George Herbert - Christian poetry, English - 1838 - 420 pages
...Herbert by Baxter, who, in the preface to his Poetical Fragments (Lond. 1681) speaks thus :—" Next to the Scripture Poems, there are none so savoury to...Mr. George Herbert's and Mr. George Sandys's. I know thatCowley and others far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure ; But (as Seneca takes with me... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...gone," being offended with the negligent observance of the Sabbath. " But I must confess," he says, " after all, that next the Scripture Poems, there are none so savoury to me, as Mr. George Herbert's. I know that Cowley, and others, far excel Herbert in wit and accurate composure; but as Seneca takes... | |
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I know that Cowley and others far exceed Herbert in wit and accurate composure ; but as Seneca takes with me above all his con- temporaries, because he speaketh things by words, feelingly and seriously, like a man that is past jest ; so Herbert speaks... 
