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... mean to use the shoot , as the builder doth , it is no matter for the roots ; but if you mean it to grow , as the planter doth , look you well that the slip has part of the root . " + I please myself with thinking that some of these ...
... mean to use the shoot , as the builder doth , it is no matter for the roots ; but if you mean it to grow , as the planter doth , look you well that the slip has part of the root . " + I please myself with thinking that some of these ...
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... means to please him , and he must by no means displease her . For as the heart is set in the midst of the body , and though it strikes to one side by the prerogative of nature , yet those throbs and con- stant motions are felt on the ...
... means to please him , and he must by no means displease her . For as the heart is set in the midst of the body , and though it strikes to one side by the prerogative of nature , yet those throbs and con- stant motions are felt on the ...
Page 48
... mean which are proper to it , are little and inconsidera- ble ; the man is apt to chide a servant too bitterly , and to be discontented with his nurse , or not sa- tisfied with his physician , and he rests uneasily , and ( poor man ...
... mean which are proper to it , are little and inconsidera- ble ; the man is apt to chide a servant too bitterly , and to be discontented with his nurse , or not sa- tisfied with his physician , and he rests uneasily , and ( poor man ...
Page 64
... means all relations and societies , and whatsoever is not enemy . But by friendships , I suppose you mean the greatest love , and the greatest use- fulness , and the most open communication , and the noblest sufferings , and the most ...
... means all relations and societies , and whatsoever is not enemy . But by friendships , I suppose you mean the greatest love , and the greatest use- fulness , and the most open communication , and the noblest sufferings , and the most ...
Page 73
... mean time may be as much in love with Mandana in the Grand Cyrus , as with the Infanta of Spain , or any of the most perfect beauties and real ex- cellencies of the world : and by dreaming of perfect and abstracted friendships , make ...
... mean time may be as much in love with Mandana in the Grand Cyrus , as with the Infanta of Spain , or any of the most perfect beauties and real ex- cellencies of the world : and by dreaming of perfect and abstracted friendships , make ...
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actions affections Anatomy of Melancholy appetite Aristotle beasts beauty behold Bishop Bishop of Lincoln blessing body Caliph caprina charity Christ christian church cloud creatures death delight desire discourse divine doth duty earth Ecclesiastical Polity evil excellent eyes fancy father fear felicity fool friendship glory God's Goodwin sands grace grave hand happy hath hear heart heaven honour innocent Israel judgment king of Burgundy knowledge labour lady Ann Clifford laws learning light live look Lord Bacon love Thee,-when man's marriage memory mercy mind nature ness never noble noise observe passions peace perfect person piety pleasure poor prayers prosperity reason religion satiety says Serm Sermon servant shew sick Skipton sorrow soul spirit tempest thee thereof things thou thoughts tion tongue TROILUS AND CRESSIDA truth unto virtue weary wherein wisdom wise worthy
Popular passages
Page 333 - Two voices are there; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains; each a mighty Voice: In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty!
Page 299 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 338 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 286 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 270 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Page 153 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 290 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 312 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good thoughts (though God accept them, yet) towards men are little better than good dreams except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 271 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 293 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...