 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 182 pages
...but wallow'd in a score? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, — For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall...having done that, thou hast done. I fear no more. after bis death, induced the duke of Shrewsbury and the earl of Oxford, noblemen of taste and learning,... | |
 | W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 260 pages
...two, but wallowed in a score ? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done ; For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall...having done that, Thou hast done ; I fear no more. DONNE. JFrom " As due by many titles, I resign Myself to Thee, O God ! First I was made By Thee, and... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when Fve spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore ;...having done that, thou hast done, I fear no more. 1 have the rather mentioned this Hymn, for that he caused it to be set to a most grave and solemn tune,... | |
 | George MacDonald - English literature - 1868 - 356 pages
...but wallowed in a score ? — When thou hast done, thou hast not done ; For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall...having done that, thou hast done : I fear no more. In those days even a pun might be a serious thing : witness the play in the last stanza on the words... | |
 | 1869 - 398 pages
...but wallow'd in a score Ï When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done ; For I have more. " I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall...having done that, Thou hast done : I fear no more." As a specimen of Donne's preaching, we give a passage on death : — " As soon the dust of a wretch... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - Church year - 1869 - 646 pages
...? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun My last thread I shall perish on the shore ;...having done that, Thou hast done — I fear no more. The first of the foregoing stanzas offers an incidental disclaimer against the peril of inferring Divine... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont Wakeley - Wesley Family - 1869 - 404 pages
...death look me in the face and my spirit is troubled. Nor can I say, ' To die is gain.' " " I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore." Again: "It is upward of two years since I left my native country in order to teach the Georgian Indians... | |
 | Frances Burge Griswold - 1871 - 164 pages
...Even, when right thought and considerations overpower it, they do not always annul it. . " I have a sin of fear that when I've spun my last thread, I shall perish on that shore." There remains no doubt that the unsoothed conscience, past guilt, the approach of judgment,... | |
 | John Wesley Thomas - 1873 - 180 pages
...all the numerous quotations from English poets, in the fourteen volumes of his Works. " I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore. " The same quotation is repeated in his first discourse on our Lord's Sermon on the Mount. citizen,... | |
 | John Harris - 1874 - 280 pages
...look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. Nor can I say, ' To die is gain ! ' ' I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore.' " — (Journals: Wesley's Works, vol. ip 70; llth edition. With which, however, compare his notes on... | |
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Others to sin, and made my sin their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun My last thread, I shall... 
