Where Ghosts Walk: The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature |
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Page 252 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee...
Page 100 - Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stairs or courts; but stand'st an ancient pile, And these, grudged at, art reverenced the while.
Page 108 - That though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind.
Page 122 - General was and being thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink, which was presently brought him; but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along, who had eaten his last at the same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle. Which Sir Philip perceiving, took it from his head before he drank and delivered it to the poor man with these words, 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.
Page 260 - The Sunday before his death, he rose suddenly from his bed or couch, called for one of his instruments, took it into his hand, and said, My God, my God, My music shall find thee, And every string Shall have his attribute to sing.
Page 253 - Herbert's retirement to Dauntsey; yet some friends to both parties procured their meeting, at which time a mutual affection entered into both their hearts, as a conqueror enters into a surprised city: and love having got such possession, governed, and made there such laws and resolutions as neither party was able to resist; insomuch that she changed her name into Herbert the third day after this first interview.
Page 115 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 155 - In all she did," says the Due D'Alencon, for instance, one of the French generals serving under her command, " except in affairs of war, she was a very simple young girl, but for warlike things, bearing the lance, assembling an army, ordering military operations, directing artillery, she was most skilful.
Page 243 - In this time of Mr. Herbert's attendance and expectation of some good occasion to remove from Cambridge to court, God, in whom there is an unseen chain of causes, did, in a short time, put an end to the lives of two of his most obliging and most powerful friends, Lodowick Duke of Richmond, and James Marquis of Hamilton ; and not long after him, King James died also, and with them, all Mr. Herbert's court hopes...