...that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are writ, that look toward God and heaven. For my own part, my meaning, dear...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory, and I beg you to receive this as one testimony.' — He then annexes the well-known lines, beginning...

...that so few are writ that look towards GOD and " heaven. For my own part, my meaning, dear mo" ther, is in these sonnets to declare my resolution to "...shall be all and " ever consecrated to GOD'S glory.*" Qiiid Vaticanam'Bodleianamque objicis, hospes! Unicus est nobis Bibliotheca Liber. This letter was...

...own part, my meaning, dear mo" ther, is in these sonnets to declare my resolution to " be, that ray poor abilities in poetry shall be all and " ever consecrated to GOD'S glory.*" This happy resolution, formed in the seventeenth year of his age, continued ; and, as he grew older,...

...my own part, my meaning (dear " mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolu"•" tion to he, that my poor abilities in poetry shall " be all and ever consecrated to God's glory ; and I bt-c you to receive this as one testimony." •' • Mi <•(«!, where is that ancient heat...

...of my late ague hath dried up those springs, by which scholars say, the Muses use to take up (heir habitations. However, I need not their help, to reprove...shall be all, and ever consecrated to God's glory : and I beg you to receive this as one testimony. My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee,...

...addressed two sonnets to his mother, with a letter, in which he expresses his resolution that his " poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory ;"*[[ and although, through his situation as Public Orator of the University of Cambridge, (which gave...

...good angel to guard and guide him." In his seventeenth year we find Herbert writing to his mother,—" For my own part my meaning (dear mother), is, in these...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory; and I beg you to receive this as one testimony ;" and then follows the religious poem, " My God, where...

...But I fear the heat of my late ague hath dried up those springs, by which scholars say the Muses used to take up their habitations. However I need not their...poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory ; and I beg you to receive this as one testimony." " My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee,...

...But I fear the heat of my late ague hath dried up those springs, by which scholars say the Muses used to take up their habitations. However I need not their...poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory ; and I beg you to receive this as one testimony." " My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee,...

...up their habitations. However, 1 need not their help to reprove the vanity of those many love poems that are daily writ, and consecrated to Venus ; nor...shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory." He was made bachelor of arts in 1611, fellow of the college and master of arts in 1615, when he was...