worldlye

Updated: May 12, 2025

Here she interred lies deprived of breath Whose light of virtue once on Earth did shyne Who life contemned ne feared ghostly death Whom worlde ne worldlye cares could cause repine Resolved to die with hope in Heaven placed Her Christ to see whom living she embraced In paynes most fervent still in zeal most strong In death delighting God to magnifye How long will thou forgett me Lord! this cry In greatest pangs was her sweet harmonye Forgett thee?

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - A Traveller in Little Things

Hence he may have underrated his father's achievements as he brooded over what he considered to be his own great secret. But I thinke that the goode olde man in that extreme age somewhat doted, and had not, yet even in the article of death, utterly shaken off all worldlye vaine glorie."

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 : The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation