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" Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And,... "
Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany: Containing a Choice Selection of ... - Page 170
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; — This man is freed from servile...though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. JOHN DONNE. BORN 1573; DTED 1631. THE life and character of Donne have been made familiar to his countrymen...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend : And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book, or friend. This man is freed from servile bands,...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. StR JOHN DAVtES was born at Chisgrove, Wiltshlre, in 1570. His father was a tanner. In 15S5, he entered...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; — This man is freed from servile...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. JOHN DONNE. BORN 1573; DIED 1631. THE life and character of Donne have been made familiar to his countrymen...
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Songs of the Free and Hymns of Christian Freedom

Maria Weston Chapman - American poetry - 1836 - 256 pages
...pray More of his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. XiXIV. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on rny birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian...
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Songs of the Free and Hymns of Christian Freedom

Maria Weston Chapman - American poetry - 1836 - 240 pages
...pray More of his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. X.XIV. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...eminent and distinguished personages, are, with me, additional grounds for happiness." THE SOUTH SEA MARAUDERS. IT used to be a common phrase among the...wild class of sailors, "that there was no peace south of the Line." This was certainly the case during the chief part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen hook, or friend. This man is freed from servile hands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall : Lord of himself,...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR JOHN DA vies was born at Chisgrove, Wiltshire, in l570. His father was a tanner. In l585, he entered...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 17

English literature - 1836 - 596 pages
...and at the feast of his own spreading. Happy the man who can say with Sir Henry Wootton, that he is " Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all." But where is that man to be found ? that greatest of all heroes, who can win laurels on the field of...
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertain the harmless day With a religious book or friend : This man is freed from servile bands,...not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. THE wing of Time passes lightly over the cheek and the brow, unconscious of the ravages of misery and ungovernable...
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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Universalist Societies and ...

Hymns, English - 1837 - 548 pages
...his grace than goods to lend, And walks with man, from day to day, As with a brother and a friend. 4 This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of 'lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. 411. CM ANONYMOUi. The True Richest Ps. 37. WITH mines of wealth are sinners poor, Unblessing and unblessed...
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