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Divine fancies : digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

1633

Second edition. Title and imprint within double lined borders. In verse. Printer's name from STC. The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. Pages 89-96 (sig. N) numbered 81-88 in error.

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A feast for vvormes : Set forth in a poeme of the history of Ionah

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644); Kingston, Felix; Moore, Richard (fl. 1607-1631)

1626

Second edition. First leaf is blank. Signatures: A-N⁴ O². With a woodcut title page ornament. "Pentelogia" has a separate dated title page. The "w" of "wormes" on title page is formed of ...

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Meditations at Holy Communion

T. S. L; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)

[193-?]

Cover title.

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Prayers of life

Quoist, Michel

1963

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Out of solitude : three meditations on the Christian life

Nouwen, Henri J M

1974

"These meditations were first given as sermons at 'Battell,' The United Church of Christ at Yale University."

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Centuries of meditations

Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674); Dobell, Bertram (1842-1914)

1927

First published 1908.

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BC MS Lt 56, f. 68v: Castilian Morris's poem
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Autograph manuscript book containing religious meditations and effusions in prose and verse, compiled by Castilian Morris

Morris, Castilian

1692-1697

The text includes some 85 prose meditations, prayers and paraphrases of scripture, 64 acrostic poems and a verse paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer (f.136r). The prayers on f.112v have emblematic illustr...

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A description of an annuall world, or, Briefe meditations upon all the holy-daies in the yeere : with certaine briefe poeticall meditations of the day in generall and all the daies in the weeke

Browne, Edward (fl. 1641)

1641

Attributed to Edward Browne. cf. NUC pre-1956. Fully described in Grolier club cat. of early works of English writers from Wither to Pryor, New York, 1905, v. 1, no. 103, p. 96-97 & facsimile facing...

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