#EnglishWriters
WHEN at the first I took my pen… Thus for to write, I did not unde… That I at all should make a littl… In such a mode: nay, I had undert… To make another; which, when almos…
A comely sight indeed it is to see A world of blossoms on an apple-tr… Yet far more comely would this tre… If all its dainty blooms young app… But how much more might one upon i…
HE that is down needs fear no fal… He that is low, no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide. I am content with what I have,
This glass, when made, was, by the… The sum of sixty minutes to fulfil… Time, more nor less, by it will ou… But just an hour, and then the gla… Man’s life we will compare unto th…
Must we unto the pismire go to sch… To learn of her in summer to provi… For winter next ensuing. Man’s a… Or silly ants would not be made hi… But, sluggard, is it not a shame f…
Behold, how eager this our little… Is for a butterfly, as if all joy, All profits, honours, yea, and las… Were wrapped up in her, or the ric… Found in her would be bundled up t…
The mole’s a creature very smooth… She digs i’ th’ dirt, but 'twill n… So’s he who counts this world his… Yet nothing gets but’s labour for… Earth’s the mole’s element, she ca…
O Wondrous dreamer, with thy powe… How all our pilgrim-life thy dream… Our load of sin, our hopes, our do… The fearful battle with the foe ma… And Beulah’s beauteous land, wher…
Now wouldst thou have a heart that… A heart that forward is to close w… A heart that will impressions free… Of the new covenant, and that will… The best improvement of the word o…
There’s one rides very sagely on t… Showing that he affects the graves… Another rides tantivy, or full tro… To show much gravity he matters no… Lo, here comes one amain, he rides…
In this see thou thy beauty, hast… Or thy defects, should they be few… Thou may’st, too, here thy spots a… Hast thou but eyes, and what their… But art thou blind? There is no l…
The title page will show, if there… Who are the proper subjects of thi… They’re boys and girls of all sort… From those of age to children on t… Thus comprehensive am I in my not…
Thy price one penny is in time of… In famine doubled, ’tis from one t… Yea, no man knows what price on th… When there is but one penny loaf t… Comparison.
God gave us Cloaths to hide our N… And we by them, do it expose to V… Our Pride, and unclean Minds, to… By our Apparel we to others shew.
Look yonder, ah! methinks mine eye… Clouds edged with silver, as fine… They look as if they saw that gold… That makes black clouds most beaut… Unto the saints’ sweet incense, or…