English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh |
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Æsop agayne alwayes ancient archer Aristotle Baboon better body bones bowe breste bycause Cæsar cause Christianity Cicero common death delight divine doth earth Esquire excellent eyther fault fether flyinge friends Frog genius give glasse hand hath head hede Herodotus Hocus honor John Bull Julius Pollux kepe king knowledge learned live look Lord Strutt lyke lytle maketh marke matter maye middle-earth mind moost nature never noble nocke philosophers Plato Plutarch poesy poetry poets poynte pray priests prince reason religion ROGER ASCHAM Roman saye shafte shal shoote shootynge shote soul speak streyght strynge sure teach tell thee therfore theyr things THOMAS CHATTERTON thou thought thynges tion truth tyme unto urns verse Vespasian virtue waye whan wherein whyche wife words write wyll wynde wyth wythall ynoughe
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Page 132 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 239 - ... tis all one to lie in St. Innocent's churchyard, as in the sands of Egypt: ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.
Page 117 - His telling of the beasts' joyfulness, and hills leaping, but a heavenly poesy: wherein almost he showeth himself a passionate lover of that unspeakable and everlasting beauty to be seen by the eyes of the mind, only cleared by faith?
Page 234 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other.
Page 195 - Tis reason a man that will have a wife should be at the charge of her trinkets, and pay all the scores she sets on him. He that will keep a monkey, 'tis fit he should pay for the glasses he breaks.
Page 161 - But if (fie of such a but) you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus that you cannot hear the planet-like music of Poetry, if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of Poetry, or rather, by a certain rustical disdain, will become such a Mome as to be a Momus of Poetry...
Page 161 - Landin, that they are so beloved of the gods that whatsoever they write proceeds of a divine fury. Lastly, to believe themselves, when they tell you they will make you immortal by their verses. Thus doing, your name shall flourish in the printers
Page 359 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul Reason receives, and Reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 392 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Page 142 - What child is there that, coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes...