"I must confess, after all that, next to Scripture Poems, there are none so savoury to me, as Mr. George Herbert’s, and Mr. George Sandys’s. I know that Cooly and others far excel Herbert in Wit and accurate composure. But (as Seneca takes with me above all his Contemporaries, because he speaketh Things by words, feelingly and seriously, like a man that is past jest, so) Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth a God, and where business in the world is most with God. Heart-work and Heaven-work make up his Books."
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Richard Baxter, 'The Epistle to the Reader', Poetical Fragments: Heart-Imployed with God and It Self (1681)
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George Herbert
George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was an English poet and orator.
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