 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...Yet thither it infallibly does guide, And from afar 't is all descry'd. ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW. POET and Saint ! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of Earth and Heaven ; The hard and rarest union which can be, Next that of Godhead with humanity. Long did the Muses' banish'd... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...Yet thither it infallibly does guide, And from afar 't is all descry'd. ON THE DEATH OF MR. CRASHAW. POET and Saint ! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of Earth and Heaven ; The hard and rarest union which can be, Next that of Godhead with humanity. Long did the Muses' banish'd... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 306 pages
...land; Still idols here, like calves at Bethel, stand. And, though Pan's death long since all oracles POET and Saint! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of Earth and Heaven: The hard and rarest union which can be, Next that of Godhead with humanity. Long did the Muses' banish'd... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1823 - 580 pages
...may be inferred from the poem of Cowley on his death, which commences with the splendid apostrophe : Poet and saint ! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of earth and heavea. He has been imitated by Pope ; and some traces of his expressions are to be found even in the... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1831 - 580 pages
...venerable names of Poet and Saint. See Cowley's verses on the death of Mr. Crashaw, which begin thus :" " Poet and Saint ! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of earth and heaven." Select Works of Mr. A. Cvwley ; in two volumes : vol. ip 121 . of men, especially men of the world,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...poor Car should print. His fate was wept by Cowley in a strain of noble tenderness and enthusiasm. Poet and Saint ! To thee alone are given The two most sacred names of earth and heaven, TUo hard and rarest union which can be*. Next that of Godhead with humanity. Long did the Muses banish'd... | |
 | Asia - 1834 - 624 pages
...Richard Crashaw, who is .characterized, by no less a pen than Cowley's, as Poet and saint, to whom alone are given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven ; and which Pope says he read " twice or thrice," and found " may just deserve reading," are perhaps... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...poor Car should print. His fate was wept by Cowley in a strain of noble tenderness and enthusiasm. Poet and Saint ! To thee alone are given The two most sacred names of earth and heaven, The hard and rarest union which can bef, Next that of Godhead with humanity. Long did the Muses banish'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...is evident that Milton had read this neglected poem. Он the Death of Mr Oraehaw. Poet and Saint 1 , ; The hard and rarest union which can be, Next that of Godhead, with humanity. Long did the Muses banish'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...heroic couplet. It is evident that Milton had read this neglected poem. On the Death of Mr Crashaw, ; The hard and rarest union which can be, Next that of Godhead, with humanity. Long did the Muses bamsh'd... | |
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Poet and saint! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of Earth and Heaven. The hard and rarest union which can be Next that of Godhead with humanity. 
