 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...Herrick's sensible directions for { keeping the true Lent,' Is this a Fast, to keep The Larder leans, And cleane, From fat of veales and sheep ? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh. vet still To fill " The platter high with fish ? Is it to faste an houre, Or raged to go, Or show A... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 346 pages
...sin, shall feel more punishment. TO KEEP A TRCE LENT. Is this a fast, to keep The larder leane, And cleane From fat of veales and sheep ? Is it to quit...still To fill The platter high with fish ? Is it to fast an houre, Or rag'd to go, Or show A down-cast look, and sowre ? No : 'tis a fast, to dole Thy... | |
 | J. R - 1824 - 350 pages
...as the lines of the celebrated Herrick. He says : " Is this a fast, to keepe The larder leane, And cleane From fat of Veales and sheep ? Is it to quit...flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish ? : No : 'tis a fast to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat, Unto the hungry soule. To show a heart grief-rent... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1824 - 356 pages
...Lent. liy Uobert Herrick. Is this a fast, — to keep The larder lean, And clean From fat of veals and sheep? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish: Is it to fast an hour. — Or rag'd to go, — Or show A downcast look and sourr No; ,'tis a fast, to dole Thy... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1824 - 382 pages
...By Robert Herrick. Is this a fast,—to keep The larder lean, And clean From fat of veals and sheepr Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish? Is it to fast an hour.— Or rag'd to go,— Or show A downcast look and sourr No; 'tis a fast, to dole Thy... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1825 - 348 pages
...sin, shall feel more punishment. TO KEEP A TRUE LENT. Is this a fast, to keep The larder leane, And cleane From fat of veales and sheep ? Is it to quit...still To fill The platter high with fish ? Is it to fast an houre, Or rag'd to go, Or show A down-cast look, and sowre ? No : 'tis a fast, to dole Thy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 306 pages
...reader YM TO KEEP A TRUE LENT. Is this a fast to keep The larder leane. And cleane From fat of véales and sheep? . Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet...still To fill The platter high with fish ? Is it to fast an houre, • i*" Or rag'd to go, Or show A down-cast look, and sowre ? No rj'tis a fast, to dole... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...eives the following reasonable Ruies to keep a true Lent. Is this a fust, to keep The larder leane And cleane, From fat of veales and sheep! Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill Thi platter high with fisli ? Is it to fast an honre, Or ia? 'd to go, Or show A downcast look, andsoure?... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...work, " Noble Numbers.'' Is this a feast to keep, The larder leane, And clean, From fat of véales and sheep ? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh yet still To fill The platter high with jf*A ? Is it to fast an hour, Or, ragged 'to go Or show A downcast look or snore ? No, 'tis a fast... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...comfort me. TO KEEP A TRUE LEXT. Is this a fast — to keep The larder lean, And clean From fat of veals and sheep ? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish ? Is it to fast an hour — Or ragged go — Or show A downcast look, and sour ? No! 'tis a fast to dole Thy sheaf... | |
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tis a fast, to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat Unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from strife, From old debate And hate To circumcise thy life. 
