The Seven Deadly Sins

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A.H. Bullen, 1907 - 106 Seiten
 

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Seite 89 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Seite 24 - The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow, Can make the fool of which they made before, In short, I must not lead the life I did do; The credulous hope of mutual minds is o'er, The copious use of claret is forbid too, So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Seite 38 - Christes lore,« and his apostles twelve He taught, but first he followed it himsclve.
Seite 37 - A good man was there of religion, And was a poore Parson of a town; But rich he was of holy thought and work; He was also a learned man, a clerk, That Christes Gospel trewely would preach: His parishens devoutly would he teach. Benign he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversity full patient; And such he was y-proved ofte sithes.
Seite 38 - Wide was his parish, and houses far asunder, But he ne left nought for no rain nor thunder, In sickness and in mischief, to visit The farthest in his parish much and lite Upon his feet and in his hand a staff: This noble 'nsample to his sheep he ya£, That first he wrought, and afterward he taught...
Seite 77 - I am lean with seeing others eat. O, that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone ! Then thou shouldst see how fat I would be.
Seite 77 - WRATH. I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother; I leapt out of a lion's mouth when I was scarce...
Seite 77 - I am Gluttony. My parents are all dead, and the devil a penny they have left me, but a bare pension, and that is thirty meals a day and ten bevers — a small trifle to suffice nature.
Seite 82 - Yet childe ne kinsman living had he none To leave them to ; but thorough daily care To get, and nightly feare to lose his owne, He led a wretched life, unto himselfe unknowne. Most wretched wight, whom nothing might suffise ; Whose greedy lust did lacke in greatest store ; Whose need had end, but no end covetise...

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