Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Joel Elias Spingarn Clarendon Press, 1908 - Criticism |
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... particular persons as they are lifted or levell'd by the force , of Fate , it being nobler to contemplate the general History of Nature then a selected Diary of Fortune : And Painters 35 are no more then Historians , when they draw ...
... particular persons as they are lifted or levell'd by the force , of Fate , it being nobler to contemplate the general History of Nature then a selected Diary of Fortune : And Painters 35 are no more then Historians , when they draw ...
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... particular Sects educated by Philosophers were diligent and pliant to the dictates and fashions of such as deriv'd themselves from the same Master , but lazy and froward to those who 15 convers'd in other Schools : Yet all these Sects ...
... particular Sects educated by Philosophers were diligent and pliant to the dictates and fashions of such as deriv'd themselves from the same Master , but lazy and froward to those who 15 convers'd in other Schools : Yet all these Sects ...
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... particular endeavours onely in behalf of our own 15 homes are signes of a narrow moral education , not of the vast kindness of Christian Religion , which likewise ordain'd as well an universal communion of bosomes as a community of ...
... particular endeavours onely in behalf of our own 15 homes are signes of a narrow moral education , not of the vast kindness of Christian Religion , which likewise ordain'd as well an universal communion of bosomes as a community of ...
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... particular knots which made a contexture of the whole , leaving such satisfaction of probabilities with the Spectator as may perswade him that neither Fortune in the fate of the Persons , nor the Writer in the Representment , have been ...
... particular knots which made a contexture of the whole , leaving such satisfaction of probabilities with the Spectator as may perswade him that neither Fortune in the fate of the Persons , nor the Writer in the Representment , have been ...
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... particular persons had impair'd in government and in- creas'd in wickedness proportionably to what Old men affirm they have done from their own infancy to their age , all pub- lique Policy had been long since Confusion , and the Con ...
... particular persons had impair'd in government and in- creas'd in wickedness proportionably to what Old men affirm they have done from their own infancy to their age , all pub- lique Policy had been long since Confusion , and the Con ...
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Page 228 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Page 118 - They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.
Page 250 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 226 - Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise ; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you : Arise, I say.
Page 334 - I'll give no more, but I'll undo The world by dying, because love dies too. Then all your beauties will be no more worth Than gold in mines, where none doth draw it forth, And all your graces no more use shall have Than a sun-dial in a grave.
Page 80 - Clymate, how can it choose but wither in a long and a sharp winter ? a warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in.
Page 243 - Full of crusadoes : and, but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking. Emil. Is he not jealous? Des. Who, he ? I think the sun where he was born Drew all such humours from him.
Page 240 - Ay, there's the point: — As, — to be bold with you, — Not to affect many proposed matches, Of her own clime, complexion, and degree; Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends: Foh ! one may smell, in such, a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Page 95 - Graces, and can artfully vary and modulate 10 his Voice, even to know how much breath he is to give to every syllable. He had all the parts of an excellent Orator, animating his words with speaking, and Speech with Action...
Page 252 - Then might he, believing her dead, touch'd with remorse, have honestly 25 cut his own Throat, by the good leave and with the applause of all the Spectators : Who might thereupon have gone home with a quiet mind, admiring the beauty of Providence, fairly and truly represented on the Theatre.