Excerpt from The Mount of Olives: And Primitive Holiness Set Forth in the Life of Paulinus, Bishop of Nola The two brief devotional treatises contained in this volume are both new and old. They comprise all the published prose, excluding several masterly translations - all the original prose, that is - of a writer of long ago, who has now won inevitably, but very late, his secure place among English poets. Born a twin, near Brecon in southern Wales (siluria), April 17, 162 I, and becoming an Oxonian who stayed not at Oxford to take any degree Henry Vaughan was unlike the contemporary lyrists whom he loved, and at first kept step with: for he was in all a man of letters, a recluse scholar, and a patrician with a formed philosophy. He bore his loyal part in the Civil Wars. They cost him his promised career at the London Bar, and brought him severe grief, and severe loss; but his proud sincerity, and, with a far more potent operation, his intense religiousness, early taught him content under the conditions of a changed and circumscribed lot that of a home-keeper, a Welsh country physician. 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.