William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Source: Argonautica, Book II, Lines 422–424
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 41
Context: Our Lord shewed concerning Prayer. In which Shewing I see two conditions in our Lord’s signifying: one is rightfulness, another is sure trust.
But yet oftentimes our trust is not full: for we are not sure that God heareth us, as we think because of our unworthiness, and because we feel right nought, (for we are as barren and dry oftentimes after our prayers as we were afore); and this, in our feeling our folly, is cause of our weakness. For thus have I felt in myself.
And all this brought our Lord suddenly to my mind, and shewed these words, and said: I am Ground of thy beseeching: first it is my will that thou have it; and after, I make thee to will it; and after, I make thee to beseech it and thou beseechest it. How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseeching?
“Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!”
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
No. 47 ("For My Funeral"), st. 3. <br class="br"> More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)
George Darley (1795–1846) Irish poet, novelist, and critic
Poem Sweet in her green dell http://www.bartleby.com/101/640.html
Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David
I Kings 8:41-43 on the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 17. How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds