 | C. A. Patrides - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...appointed change with hope and patience. Having said this, he did with so sweet a humility as seem'd to exalt him, bow down to Mr. Duncon, and with a thoughtful...picture of the many spiritual Conflicts that have past betwixt God and my Soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master: in whose... | |
 | Isobel Armstrong, Hans-Werner Ludwig - English literature - 1995 - 244 pages
...and here Walton, who never met Herbert, supplies a supposed literal account of Herbert's own words: Sir, I pray deliver this little Book to my dear brother...picture of the many spiritual Conflicts that have past betwixt God and my Soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master: in whose... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1867 - 562 pages
...seemed to exalt him, and with a thoughtful and contented look, bow down and say, " Sir, I pray you, deliver this little book to my dear brother Farrer...conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul. Desire him to read it ; then, if he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected, poor soul,... | |
 | Religion - 2001 - 242 pages
...was dying. Many were composed after a morning's meditation on a religious text and were, he wrote, 'a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul'. Contemporary critics of Herbert and Donne called such verse 'strong-lined' — not intended as praise... | |
 | Owen F. Cummings - Religion - 2004 - 166 pages
...collection of poems The Temple with these words: I pray deliver this little book to my dear brother Ferrar and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master, in Whose service... | |
 | John M. Court - Religion - 2003 - 356 pages
...letter to Nicholas Ferrar that accompanied the manuscript of The Temple, describes his work as 'as a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul';2 but it is also possible to find, mirrored in Herbert's poems, the personal struggles that are... | |
 | Owen F. Cummings - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 86 pages
...his poems, The Temple, with these words: I pray deliver this little book to my dear brother Ferrar and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master, in Whose service... | |
 | J. B. Leishman - Drama - 2005 - 264 pages
...Nicholas Ferrar's cousin, Arthur Woodnoth: Sir, I pray deliver this little Book to my dear brother Farrcr, and tell him, he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual Conflicts that have past betwixt God and my Soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master: in whose... | |
 | Richard Harries, Michael W. Brierley - Religion - 2006 - 264 pages
...thoughtful and contented look' and said: Sir, I pray deliver this little Book to my dear brother Ferrar, and tell him, he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual Conflicts that have past betwixt God and my Soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master: in whose... | |
 | Shirlee Emmons, Wilbur Watkins Lewis - Music - 2005 - 523 pages
...provided he thought they would help anyone, otherwise to burn them. He stated that his poems represented "a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul." After Herbert died, his muchadmired poems collected as The Temple came out and enjoyed thirteen editions.... | |
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Farrer, and tell him, he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master: in whose service I have now found perfect freedom. Desire him to... 
