Owen Felltham
Owen Felltham
Owen Felthamwas an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political, containing 146 short essays. It had great popularity in its day. Feltham was for a time in the household of the Earl of Thomond as chaplain or sec., and published, Brief Character of the Low Countries. His most cited essay is "How the Distempers of these Times should affect wise Men" which was selected for inclusion in John Gross' The Oxford Book of Essays, a...
delights earthly expectation fruition spiritual sweeter
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; all spiritual pleasures, more in fruition than in expectation