Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century: book IV. England. book V. Philosophy and scienceMacmillan, 1920 - Europe |
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Archbishop Aristotle Articles authority Bacon bishops body Burghley Catholic ceremonies Christ Christian Church of England clergy Convocation Cranmer death declared divine doctrine earth ecclesiastical Elizabeth Elizabethan English Church English Reformation expression faith followed Francis Bacon Gee and Hardy genius God's grace Greek hath Henry VIII heresy holy Hooker human intellectual Italian King King's knowledge Latimer Latin learning Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci letter living Lollards Lord Luther Lutheran mathematical matter mediaeval ment mind nature Nicholas of Cusa Novum Organum observation papal Paracelsus Parliament Pecock philosophy Platonism plays poet pope Praemunire Prayer preaching priests princes principle Puritan Queen realm reason reform reign religion religious Roger Bacon Roman Rome royal sacraments scholastic Scholasticism Scripture self-expression sermon Shakespeare Sidney sixteenth century sonnets soul spirit Strype teach things thought tion translated truth universal unto verse words writings wrote Wyclif
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Page 255 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 254 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence.
Page 212 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 249 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 254 - Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been <» As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hath ta'en with equal thanks...
Page 251 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 363 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 223 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 263 - You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir : Our revels now are ended : these our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air...
Page 360 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy ; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...