Though private prayer be a brave design, Yet public hath more promises, more love : And love's a weight to hearts, to eyes a sign. We all are but cold suitors ; let us move Where it is warmest. Leave thy six and seven ; Pray with the most : for where... The Sunday at Home - Página 871894Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Itrat Husain - 1966 - 356 páginas
...WA Lewis Bettany, p. xxxv. 2 Puritan and Anglican Studies in Literature, by Edward Dowden, p. 121, "Though Private prayer be a brave design Yet Public hath more promises, more love ; And love's a we1ght to hearts, to e1es a signe. We all are but cold suitours ; let us move Where it is warmest ;... | |
| George Herbert - 1981 - 382 páginas
...Thwart not th' Almighty God: Oh be not cross. 393 Fast when thou wilt; but then 'tis gain, not loss. Though private prayer be a brave design, Yet public hath more promises, more love: And love's a weight77 to hearts, to eyes a sign. We all are but cold suitors; let us move 400 Where it is warmest.... | |
| George Herbert - 1991 - 500 páginas
...Thwart not th' Almighty God: O be not cross. 395 Fast when thou wilt; but then 'tis gain, not loss. 67 Though private prayer be a brave design, Yet public...eyes a sign. We all are but cold suitors; let us move 400 Where it is warmest. Leave thy six and seven; Pray with the most: for where most pray, is heaven.... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - 1997 - 350 páginas
...urges "Though private prayer be a brave designe, / Yet publick hath more promises, more love: / ... let us move / Where it is warmest. Leave thy six and seven; / Pray with the most: for where most pray, is heaven" (lines 397-402). Although the poems in The Temple are, as the title adds, "Private... | |
| Richard Rambuss - 1998 - 212 páginas
...same poem he insists, however, that corporate prayer in church remains the richest form of devotion: "Though private prayer be a brave design, / Yet public hath more promises, more love." "Pray with the most," Herbert thus concludes, "for where most pray, is heaven" (lines 397-98, 402).... | |
| G. R. Evans - 2000 - 496 páginas
...catechesis and preaching were merely an expression of this broader understanding of teaching and learning. Though private prayer be a brave design, Yet public...six and seven; Pray with the most: for where most pray, is heaven. ('Perirrhanterium', lines 396-402) A didactic model To describe Herbert's model of... | |
| Ramie Targoff - 2001 - 184 páginas
...more promises, more love. And love's a weight to hearts, to eies a sign. We all are but cold suitours; let us move Where it is warmest. Leave thy six and seven; Pray with the most: for where most pray, is heaven, (lines 397-402)" pers; the "love" that is aroused by praying publicly spreads contagiously... | |
| Ramie Targoff - 2001 - 177 páginas
...preference for public over private devotion: Though private prayer be a brave designe, Yet publick hath more promises, more love. And love's a weight to hearts, to eies a sign. We all are but cold suitours; let us move Where it is warmest. Leave thy six and seven;... | |
| Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 572 páginas
...public prayer took precedence over private: Though private prayer be a brave designe, Yet publicke hath more promises, more love: And love's a weight to hearts, to eies a signe. We all are but cold suitours; let us move Where it is warmest. Leave thy six and seven;... | |
| John M. Court - 2003 - 356 páginas
...formal liturgy. In 'The Churchporch' Herbert says: Though private prayer be a brave designe, Yet publick hath more promises, more love: And love's a weight to hearts, to eies a signe. We all are but cold suitors; let us move Where it is warmest. Leave thy six and seven;... | |
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