The Anatomy of Melancholy ...: To which is Prefixed, a Satyricall Preface ...B. Blake, 1838 - 743 sider |
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Side 4
... continue statu quo prius , left to a solitary life , and mine own domestick discontents ; saving that sometimes , ne quid mentiar , as Diogenes went into the city and Democritus to the haven , to see fashions , I did for my recreation ...
... continue statu quo prius , left to a solitary life , and mine own domestick discontents ; saving that sometimes , ne quid mentiar , as Diogenes went into the city and Democritus to the haven , to see fashions , I did for my recreation ...
Side 21
... continue . Some say there be two main defects of wit - errour and igno- rance to which all others are reduced . By ignorance we know not things necessary ; by errour we know them falsly . Ignorance is a privation , errour a positive act ...
... continue . Some say there be two main defects of wit - errour and igno- rance to which all others are reduced . By ignorance we know not things necessary ; by errour we know them falsly . Ignorance is a privation , errour a positive act ...
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... continue still ( for ought I know to the contrary ) , roving about in pied - coats , and are called Chrysalides by the wiser sort of men - that is , golden outsides , drones , flies , and things of no worth . Multitudes of such , & c ...
... continue still ( for ought I know to the contrary ) , roving about in pied - coats , and are called Chrysalides by the wiser sort of men - that is , golden outsides , drones , flies , and things of no worth . Multitudes of such , & c ...
Side 41
... continue it ? P Theodoret , ( out of Plotinus the Platonist ) holds it a ridiculous thing for a man to live after his own laws , to do that which is offensive to God , and yet to hope that he should save him ; and , when he voluntarily ...
... continue it ? P Theodoret , ( out of Plotinus the Platonist ) holds it a ridiculous thing for a man to live after his own laws , to do that which is offensive to God , and yet to hope that he should save him ; and , when he voluntarily ...
Side 48
... continue causes so long , ( lustra aliquot ) I know not how many years , before the cause is heard : and when ' tis judged and determined , by reason of some tricks and errours , it is as fresh to begin , after twice seven years ...
... continue causes so long , ( lustra aliquot ) I know not how many years , before the cause is heard : and when ' tis judged and determined , by reason of some tricks and errours , it is as fresh to begin , after twice seven years ...
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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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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 2 - Thus I daily hear, and such like, both private and public news. Amidst the gallantry and misery of the world...