However, I need not their help to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems, that are daily writ, and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are writ, that look towards God and Heaven. For my own part, my meaning — dear Mother — is, in... Lives of Sacred Poets - Sida 196efter Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 363 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Noam Flinker - 2000 - 190 sidor
...would 'reprove the vanity of those many Love-poems, that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus . . . For my own part, my meaning (dear Mother) is in these...Abilities in Poetry, shall be all, and ever consecrated to Gods glory' (Herbert 363). In addition, Baldwin's play with unusual verse forms suggests a similar... | |
| Ramie Targoff - 2001 - 177 sidor
...the young Herbert sent a pair of sonnets to his mother along with a letter announcing his intention that "my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory," an intention clearly announced in the opening lines of the first sonnet: Why are not sonnets made of... | |
| George Herbert - 2007 - 47 sidor
...that look towards God and Heaven'. He informed his mother that, by means of the sonnets, he intended 'to declare my resolution to be that my poor Abilities in Poetry, shall be all, and ever consecrated to Gods glory . Sources. H.'s youthful sonnets inevitably borrow from the very tradition of love poetry... | |
| 1905 - 936 sidor
...Herbert and in the development of English poetry. "In these sonnets," Walton reports him as saying, "I declare my resolution to be that my poor abilities...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." Herbert, thus early discovering himself to be a poet, here fixes the field most suitable to his genius.... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1875 - 780 sidor
...his early age to virtue, and a serious study of learning." At seventeen he wrote to his mother — "my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." Some of his earlier poems, written at this period, breathe a devoted spirit of piety. Music, too, was... | |
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