The Anatomy of Melancholy ...: To which is Prefixed, a Satyricall Preface ...B. Blake, 1838 - 743 sider |
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... observes , for later writers and impostors , to broach many absurd and insolent fictions , under the name of so noble a philosopher as Democritus , to get themselves credit , and by that means the more to be respected , as artificers ...
... observes , for later writers and impostors , to broach many absurd and insolent fictions , under the name of so noble a philosopher as Democritus , to get themselves credit , and by that means the more to be respected , as artificers ...
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... observes , nothing more invites a reader than an argument unlooked for , unthought of , and sells better than a scurrile pamphlet , tum maxime cum novitas excitat palatum . Many men , saith Gellius , are very conceited in their ...
... observes , nothing more invites a reader than an argument unlooked for , unthought of , and sells better than a scurrile pamphlet , tum maxime cum novitas excitat palatum . Many men , saith Gellius , are very conceited in their ...
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... observes , ' tis pride and vanity that eggs them on ; no news , or ought worthy of note , but the same in other terms . Ne feriarentur fortasse typographi , vel ideo scribendum est aliquid ut se vixisse testentur . As apothecaries , we ...
... observes , ' tis pride and vanity that eggs them on ; no news , or ought worthy of note , but the same in other terms . Ne feriarentur fortasse typographi , vel ideo scribendum est aliquid ut se vixisse testentur . As apothecaries , we ...
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... observes , not regarding what , but who write , orexin habet auctoris celebritas , not valuing the mettal , but the stamp that is upon it ; cantharum aspiciunt , non quid in eo . If he be not rich , in great place , polite and brave , a ...
... observes , not regarding what , but who write , orexin habet auctoris celebritas , not valuing the mettal , but the stamp that is upon it ; cantharum aspiciunt , non quid in eo . If he be not rich , in great place , polite and brave , a ...
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... observes , oratio vulgaris et protrita , dicaces et ineptæ sententiæ , eruditio plebeia , an homely shallow writer as he is . In partibus spinas et fastidia , habet , saith Lipsius ; and , as in all his other works , so especially in ...
... observes , oratio vulgaris et protrita , dicaces et ineptæ sententiæ , eruditio plebeia , an homely shallow writer as he is . In partibus spinas et fastidia , habet , saith Lipsius ; and , as in all his other works , so especially in ...
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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...