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... itself antiquity be venera- ble ) but went before them , as caufes to draw , with their charming fweetnefs , the wild un- tamed wits to an admiration of knowledge . So as Amphion was said to move ftones with his po- etry to build Thebes ...
... itself antiquity be venera- ble ) but went before them , as caufes to draw , with their charming fweetnefs , the wild un- tamed wits to an admiration of knowledge . So as Amphion was said to move ftones with his po- etry to build Thebes ...
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... itself , that the Philo fophers of Greece durft not a long time appear to the world , but under the mask of Poets : So Thales , fict Empedocles , and Parmenides , fang their natural philosophy in verfes : So did Pythagoras and ...
... itself , that the Philo fophers of Greece durft not a long time appear to the world , but under the mask of Poets : So Thales , fict Empedocles , and Parmenides , fang their natural philosophy in verfes : So did Pythagoras and ...
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... itself . And that the poet hath that idea , is manifeft , by the delivering them forth in fuch excellency as he had imagined them ; which delivering forth , also , is not wholly imaginative , as we were wont to fay by them that build ...
... itself . And that the poet hath that idea , is manifeft , by the delivering them forth in fuch excellency as he had imagined them ; which delivering forth , also , is not wholly imaginative , as we were wont to fay by them that build ...
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... itself out of the limits of a man's own little world , to the government of families , and maintaining of publick focieties ? The Hiflorian scarce gives leisure to the Moralift to fay fo much , but that he , ( loaden with old mouse ...
... itself out of the limits of a man's own little world , to the government of families , and maintaining of publick focieties ? The Hiflorian scarce gives leisure to the Moralift to fay fo much , but that he , ( loaden with old mouse ...
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... might well make the hearer able to repeat , as it were , by rote , all he had heard , yet fhould never fa- tisfy his inward conceit , with being witnefs to itself itself of a true living knowledge : But the fame Phiiss - too abstract.
... might well make the hearer able to repeat , as it were , by rote , all he had heard , yet fhould never fa- tisfy his inward conceit , with being witnefs to itself itself of a true living knowledge : But the fame Phiiss - too abstract.
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Page 67 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 2 - I remember mine ears were at any time more loaden, than when (either angered with slow payment, or moved with our learner-like admiration) he exercised his speech in the praise of his faculty. He said soldiers were the noblest estate of mankind, and horsemen the noblest of soldiers. He said they were the masters of war, and ornaments of peace...
Page 99 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 5 - Tyrtaeus in war matters; and Solon in matters of policy; or rather they, being poets, did exercise their delightful vein in those points of highest knowledge, which before them lay...
Page 12 - Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Page 28 - For that a feigned example hath as much force to teach as a true example...
Page 12 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Page 32 - The philosopher showeth you the way, he informeth you of the particularities, as well of the tediousness of the way, as of the pleasant lodging you shall have when your journey is ended, as of the many by-turnings that may divert you from your way.
Page 2 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises, by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Page 99 - In short, within his view and about his times were all the wits born, that could honour a language or help study. Now things daily fall, wits grow downward, and eloquence grows backward; so that he may be named, and stand, as the mark and acme of our language.