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Excerpt from The Mount of Olives
Henry Vaughan, as a poet, has been well treated by posterity. The verse collected under the title of Silex Scintillans has appeared in numerous and varied editions. H is prose works, how ever, have su?''ered from nu merited disregard; and The Mount of Olives, the fruits of his retirement, filled like his poetry with the cloistered peace and devout spirit of the true Christian, has been reprinted but twice since the publication, in 1652, of the original volume from which the present text is derived.
Vaughan is a companion for the meek, the gentle, the humble in heart - he sh''eets no aggressive mission, counsels no hard discipline of his fellow-men. A te cluse for the greater part of his life, he had in his youth tasted the bitterness and sounded the vanity of the world; and out of his experience came, in all their calm and abstinence, the prayers now reprinted. He advocates the internal life, whose sweets he himself had found good.
The literary value of The Mount of Olives may not be of the highest, although it would be di?icult to surpass in its own kind such a passage, for instance, as the Meditation at the Setting of the Sun. But the purity, the devout quietude, the beauty of his thought entitles Vaughan to a place among the religious classics.
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Henry Vaughan, as a poet, has been well treated by posterity. The verse collected under the title of Silex Scintillans has appeared in numerous and varied editions. H is prose works, how ever, have su?''ered from nu merited disregard; and The Mount of Olives, the fruits of his retirement, filled like his poetry with the cloistered peace and devout spirit of the true Christian, has been reprinted but twice since the publication, in 1652, of the original volume from which the present text is derived.
Vaughan is a companion for the meek, the gentle, the humble in heart - he sh''eets no aggressive mission, counsels no hard discipline of his fellow-men. A te cluse for the greater part of his life, he had in his youth tasted the bitterness and sounded the vanity of the world; and out of his experience came, in all their calm and abstinence, the prayers now reprinted. He advocates the internal life, whose sweets he himself had found good.
The literary value of The Mount of Olives may not be of the highest, although it would be di?icult to surpass in its own kind such a passage, for instance, as the Meditation at the Setting of the Sun. But the purity, the devout quietude, the beauty of his thought entitles Vaughan to a place among the religious classics.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Henry Vaughan
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ISBN - 9780331506761
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm
Page Count - 51
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Author
Henry Vaughan
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ISBN - 9781333888763
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm
Page Count - 53
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