Original engl.: "No man is an island." - aus Meditation XVII
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Original engl.: "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - aus Meditation XVII
„Ich wäre jämmerlich, wenn ich nicht sterben wollte. Dein Reich komme, Dein Wille geschehe.“
Letzte Worte, 31. März 1631
Original engl.: "I were miserable if I might not die. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done."
John Donne: Zitate auf Englisch
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, stanza 4
“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”
No. 48, preached upon the Day of St. Paul's Conversion, January 25, 1629
LXXX Sermons (1640)
No. 76 http://books.google.com/books?id=eypXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+God's+hand+is+bent+to+strike+it+is+a+fearful+thing+to+fall+into+the+hands+of+the+living+God+but+to+fall+out+of+the+hands+of+the+living+God+is+a+horror+beyond+our+expression+beyond+our+imagination%22&pg=PA386#v=onepage, preached at Sion to The Earl of Carlisle and company (c. 1622) <br class="br">LXXX Sermons (1640)
“The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I
Abjure my so much loved variety.”
No. 17, Variety, line 1
Elegies
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, stanza 2
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, April 5, 1628
LXXX Sermons (1640)
John Donne buch Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
Elegies
“Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush.”
Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”
The Triple Fool, stanza 2
XXVI Sermons, No. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631
No. 76, preached to the Earl of Carlisle, c. autumn 1622
LXXX Sermons (1640)
An Anatomy of the World, The First Anniversary
“O my America! my new-found land.”
John Donne buch Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 27
Elegies
“And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.”
The Undertaking, stanza 5
The Anniversary, stanza 1
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Of the Progress of the Soul, The Second Anniversary
I. Insultus Morbi Primus; The first alteration, the first grudging of the sickness.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
II. Actio Læsa; The strength, and the functions of the senses, and other faculties change and fail.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
John Donne The Funeral
The Funeral, stanza 1
