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" I need not their help, to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are writ, that look towards God and heaven. For my own part, my meaning (dear mother) is in these sonnets, to... "
An essay of particular advice to the young gentry, by the author of Youths ... - Page 56
by John Graile (of Blickling.) - 1711
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The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue

George Herbert - 1703 - 450 pages
...New-years Gift, may appear to.be fome Teftimony. — But J fear the beat of my late Ague hath dyed up ibofe Springs, by which Scholars fay the Mufes ufe to take up their Hahitations. However, J need-not their help to reprove the Vanity of thofe many Love-Poems, that are...
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Bishop Jewel. Bernard Gilpin. Richard Hooker. Archbishop Whitgift. John ...

Christian biography - 1810 - 594 pages
...But I fear the heat of my late ague hath dried up those springs, by which scholars say, the Muses use to take up their habitations. However, I need not their help, to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems, that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are...
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Biographia evangelica

Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 552 pages
...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 help, " to worth and learning, both in and near the University; and particularly with the great Mr. Donne, afterwards...
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Evangelical Biography: Or, An Historical Account of the Lives & Deaths of ...

Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1816 - 596 pages
...fear the heat of my late ague hath dried tip those " springs, by which, scholars say, the muses used to take " up their habitations. However, I need not their help, " to worth and learning, hoth in and near the University; and particularly with the great Mr. Donne, afterwards...
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The Lives of Dr. John Donne;--Sir Henry Wotton;--Mr. Richard ..., Volume 2

Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pages
...the heat of my late ague hath •" dried up those springs, by which- scholars say, " the muses use to take up their habitations. " However I need not their help, to reprove the •• vanity of those BUW# 10ve-poum that are daily " writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail " that so few are...
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The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ...

Izaak Walton - Fore-edge paintings - 1824 - 418 pages
...I fear the heat of my late ague hath dried up " those springs, by which scholars say the Muses use to take " up their habitations. However, I need not their help to p " reprove the vanity of those many love-poems, that are " daily writ, and consecrated to Venus ;...
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The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 2

Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...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 help, to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives

English literature - 1832 - 348 pages
...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 help, to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are...
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 1

Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 408 pages
...But I fear the heat of my late ague hath dried up those springs by which scholars say the Muses use to take up their habitations. However, I need not their help to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are...
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Lives of the English Sacred Poets, Volume 1

Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...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 help to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated, to Venus; nor to bewail that so few are...
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