The Anatomy of Melancholy ...: To which is Prefixed, a Satyricall Preface ...B. Blake, 1838 - 743 Seiten |
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... wit and shapeless elegance , miscellaneous matter , intermixture of agreeable tales and illustrations , and , perhaps above all , the singularities of his feelings , clothed in an uncom- mon quaintness of style , have contributed to ...
... wit and shapeless elegance , miscellaneous matter , intermixture of agreeable tales and illustrations , and , perhaps above all , the singularities of his feelings , clothed in an uncom- mon quaintness of style , have contributed to ...
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... wit , profound conceit ; and , to attain knowledge the better in his younger years , he travelled to Egypt and • Athens ... wits , not to be a slave of one science , or dwell altogether in one subject , as most do , but to rove abroad ...
... wit , profound conceit ; and , to attain knowledge the better in his younger years , he travelled to Egypt and • Athens ... wits , not to be a slave of one science , or dwell altogether in one subject , as most do , but to rove abroad ...
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... wits , pick the choice flowers of their till'd gardens to set out our own sterile plots . Castrant alios , ut libros suos , per se graciles , alieno adipe suffarciant ( so Jovius inveighs ) ; they lard their lean books with the fat of ...
... wits , pick the choice flowers of their till'd gardens to set out our own sterile plots . Castrant alios , ut libros suos , per se graciles , alieno adipe suffarciant ( so Jovius inveighs ) ; they lard their lean books with the fat of ...
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... wit , that in this scribling age can forge nothing . ' Princes shew their armies , rich men vaunt their buildings ... wits out , and set them to sale : magno conatu nihil agimus . So that , which P Gesner much desires , if a speedy re ...
... wit , that in this scribling age can forge nothing . ' Princes shew their armies , rich men vaunt their buildings ... wits out , and set them to sale : magno conatu nihil agimus . So that , which P Gesner much desires , if a speedy re ...
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... wit , learning , harsh , raw , rude , phantastical , absurd , insolent , indiscreet , ill - composed , indigested , vain , scurrile , idle , dull and dry ; I confess all ( ' tis partly affected ) : thou canst not think worse of me than ...
... wit , learning , harsh , raw , rude , phantastical , absurd , insolent , indiscreet , ill - composed , indigested , vain , scurrile , idle , dull and dry ; I confess all ( ' tis partly affected ) : thou canst not think worse of me than ...
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Aëtius affected alii amongst amor animi Apuleius Aristotle atque Avicenna body brain Cæsar calls Cardan cause commends consil countrey Crato cured dæmon dayes Democritus devils discontent diseases divine dote doth drink ejus enim Epist fair fear Felix Plater fools friends Galen grief habet hæc hath heart hellebor Hippocrates hist homines honour humours Idem idle Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind king Laurentius live Lucian lust malady meat melan melancholy MEMB mihi mind misery Montaltus morbis morbos musick neque nihil nisi nunc omnes omnia Ovid Paracelsus passion Philostratus physician physick Plato Plautus pleasant Plutarch poet potest Psal quæ quam quid quis quod quum rest Rhasis sæpe saith Scaliger Seneca shew sibi sick sine sorrow soul spirits SUBSECT sunt sweet symptomes thee things thou art Tract Tully unto Venus vertue wife yong
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Seite 10 - So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow; now direct, then per ambages; now deep, then shallow; now muddy, then clear; now broad, then narrow; doth my style flow: now serious, then light; now comical, then satirical; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required, or as at that time I was affected.
Seite 1 - I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland...
Seite iv - WHEN I go musing all alone, Thinking of divers things foreknown ; When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow, and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet ; Methinks, the time runs very fleet ! All my joys to this, are folly ; Nought so sweet as Melancholy...
Seite 87 - Wierus tells a story of such a one at Padua, 1541, that would not believe to the contrary, but that he was a wolf.
Seite viii - Thrace, and was sent for thither to be their law-maker, recorder, or town-clerk, as some will ; or as others, he was there bred and born. Howsoever it was, there he lived at last in a garden in the suburbs, wholly betaking himself to his studies and a private life, " saving that sometimes he would walk down to the haven, v and laugh heartily at such variety of ridiculous objects, which there he saw.
Seite 5 - As a good housewife out of divers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth, a bee gathers wax and honey out of many flowers, and makes a new bundle of all...
Seite 3 - I aimed at, vel ut lenirem animum scribendo, to ease my mind by writing, for I had gravidum cor, fxdum capuf, a kind of imposthume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of, and could imagine no fitter evacuation than this.
Seite 9 - Nicholas Car, in his Oration of the paucity of English writers, gives, that so many flourishing wits are smothered in oblivion, lye dead and buried, in this our nation.
Seite 13 - Or else I can excuse my studies with 2 Lessius the Jesuit in like case. It is a disease of the soul on which 1 am to treat, and as much appertaining to a divine as to a physician, and who knows not what an agreement there is betwixt these two professions...
Seite 2 - Thus I daily hear, and such like, both private and public news. Amidst the gallantry and misery of the world...