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" MAN. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay. "
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations - Page 88
by George Herbert - 1838 - 361 pages
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...poems, still often republished, is entitled "The Temple." He died at the early age of thirty-nine. MAN. My God! I heard this day That none doth build...that means to dwell therein. What house more stately Lath there been, Or can be, than is Man, to whoso creation. All things are in decay f For Man is everything,...
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...poems, still often rcpublished, is entitled "The Temple." llu died at the early age of thirty-nine. tting to the main, At Kause, the month of Seine, With all his martial train. ho that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man, to...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. SlB IlENHV WOTTON. Ulan. MY God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately habitation Bui he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is man,...
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The Temple and Other English Poems

George Herbert - 1883 - 262 pages
...relief: With care and courage building me, Till I reach heaven, and much more, Thee. STAN. 85 TV/TY God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is everything, And more : he is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be more : Reason...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...soul, Like season' d timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to cool, Then chiefly lives. MAN. My God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately habitation But lie that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man :-...
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The poetical works of George Herbert; and The synagogue, by C. Harvey, with ...

George Herbert - 1885 - 408 pages
...thy pay, And day by day Labour thy praise and my relief ; With care and courage building me, 18 MAN. God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...every thing, And more : He is a tree, yet bears no ft uit ; A beast, yet is, or should be more : Reason and speech we only bring. Parrots may thank us,...
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The Poems of George Herbert: To which are Added Selections from His Prose ...

George Herbert - 1885 - 370 pages
...Enter Thy pay, And day by day Labour Thy praise and my relief ; With care and courage building me, MAN. MY God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately habitation, But ho that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man ? to...
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American Notes and Queries, Volume 4

William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1890 - 346 pages
...obscurities I underline. ANNIE HARDING. PHILADELPHIA, PA. In his poem '''Man" I find the following: What house more stately hath there been, Or can be,...is Man ? To whose creation All things are in decay. The meaning is probably that man lives upon the fruits of the earth and they are nourished by that...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...— Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. SIR HENRY WOTTON. Alan. MY God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...is man, to whose creation All things are in decay Î For man is every thing, And more: he is a tree, yet bears no fruit; A beast, yet is, or should be,...
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The Cambrian, Volumes 10-11

1890 - 830 pages
...as worthily filling his appointed place in the order of the universe. Thus in the verses entitled " Man :" "My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a statelv habitation But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been Or can...
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