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... whose works are loft , that turned the whole writings of Homer f turned the whole writings of Homer into an Allegory : ] Mr. Hughes feems not to have known that another work of this kind exifted , which is in Greek , viz . " Allegoria ...
... whose works are loft , that turned the whole writings of Homer f turned the whole writings of Homer into an Allegory : ] Mr. Hughes feems not to have known that another work of this kind exifted , which is in Greek , viz . " Allegoria ...
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... whose life does fade away ; " Or as the moone cloathed with clowdy night : " The fmokinefs of it , and the flaves of Mammon working at an hundred furnaces , are all defcribed in the most lively manner ; as their fudden looking at Sir ...
... whose life does fade away ; " Or as the moone cloathed with clowdy night : " The fmokinefs of it , and the flaves of Mammon working at an hundred furnaces , are all defcribed in the most lively manner ; as their fudden looking at Sir ...
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... whose existence is ftill unquestioned by the vulgar in fome parts of Italy . To the exertion of her fupernatural powers they even now attri- bute a peculiar appearance , which the fky occafionally exhibits during the heat of fummer over ...
... whose existence is ftill unquestioned by the vulgar in fome parts of Italy . To the exertion of her fupernatural powers they even now attri- bute a peculiar appearance , which the fky occafionally exhibits during the heat of fummer over ...
Page cxi
... whose tail reaches to the fkies , and throws down the stars , ( ft . 18. ) the bearing a golden cup in her hand , ( C. viii . ft . 25. ) This is the Scarlet Whore , and the Red Dragon in the REVELATIONS . " Behold ૧ a great red dragon ...
... whose tail reaches to the fkies , and throws down the stars , ( ft . 18. ) the bearing a golden cup in her hand , ( C. viii . ft . 25. ) This is the Scarlet Whore , and the Red Dragon in the REVELATIONS . " Behold ૧ a great red dragon ...
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... Whose memory is quite worne out with yeares " Who of the Grecian Libbard now ought heares " That over - ran the Eaft with greedy powre , " And left his Whelps their kingdoms to devoure ? " The Affyrian Lyoneffe images the Affyrian and ...
... Whose memory is quite worne out with yeares " Who of the Grecian Libbard now ought heares " That over - ran the Eaft with greedy powre , " And left his Whelps their kingdoms to devoure ? " The Affyrian Lyoneffe images the Affyrian and ...
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Page 19 - Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe) this is no place for living men.
Page cxii - So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness : and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Page xxxv - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page cxi - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 47 - Ah Sir, my liege lord, and my love, Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate. And mightie causes wrought in heaven above, Or the blind god, that doth me thus amate. For hoped love to winne me certaine hate? Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die. Die is my dew ; yet rew my wretched state, You, whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently. LII. "Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom...
Page 43 - Who all this while, with charmes and hidden artes, Had made a lady of that other spright, And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes, So...
Page 42 - Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake, He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake.
Page 30 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had...
Page 40 - And wakeful dogges before them farre doe lye, Watching to banish Care their enimy, Who oft is wont to trouble gentle Sleepe. By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly, And unto Morpheus comes, whom drowned deepe In drowsie fit he findes : of nothing he takes keepe.
Page cxxxv - Which default when as some endevoured to salve and recure, they patched up the holes with peces and rags of other languages, borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, every where of the Latine, not weighing how il those tongues accorde with themselves, but much worse with ours : So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodge-podge of al other speches.