The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de bien penser] by father Bouhours. To which are added parallel quotations out of English authors1728 |
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... Souls in Simile and Rhime . Thought is the most obvious , and yet the most common , in English Poetry , occafion'd either by the Poets Ignorance of it , or their Dependance on the Ignorance of their Hearers and Readers , tho ' they have ...
... Souls in Simile and Rhime . Thought is the most obvious , and yet the most common , in English Poetry , occafion'd either by the Poets Ignorance of it , or their Dependance on the Ignorance of their Hearers and Readers , tho ' they have ...
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... his Age . NATURE had painted the Qualities of his Soul upon his Face : He had an easy agreeable Air , a fprightly Phyfiognomy , and no Body was more affable , affable , more obliging , more even - temper'd , Xxvii The LIFE and WRITINGS.
... his Age . NATURE had painted the Qualities of his Soul upon his Face : He had an easy agreeable Air , a fprightly Phyfiognomy , and no Body was more affable , affable , more obliging , more even - temper'd , Xxvii The LIFE and WRITINGS.
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... Soul of a Thought ; Bella falfitas , plaufibile mendacium ; & ob eam caufam gratiffimum , quod excogitamus folerter & ingeniofe . Vavaff . Lib . de Epig . FOR Inftance : According to the Fable , the Flowers fpring under the Feet of the ...
... Soul of a Thought ; Bella falfitas , plaufibile mendacium ; & ob eam caufam gratiffimum , quod excogitamus folerter & ingeniofe . Vavaff . Lib . de Epig . FOR Inftance : According to the Fable , the Flowers fpring under the Feet of the ...
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... Souls in Praifes to our hea- venly Benefactor , for the Mercies we are always begging and receiving of him . As we are not fhockt at Homer's making the Goddeffes of Prayer Cripples , fo the Fiction , that the Graces are fhort and little ...
... Souls in Praifes to our hea- venly Benefactor , for the Mercies we are always begging and receiving of him . As we are not fhockt at Homer's making the Goddeffes of Prayer Cripples , fo the Fiction , that the Graces are fhort and little ...
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... Soul was fo poffefs'd with the Me- rit of Cato , that he raises him above the Gods , in making him the Defender of the jufteft Caufe , and in placing the Deities on the wrong Side . Brebeuf turns this noble I- mage of raifing Cato above ...
... Soul was fo poffefs'd with the Me- rit of Cato , that he raises him above the Gods , in making him the Defender of the jufteft Caufe , and in placing the Deities on the wrong Side . Brebeuf turns this noble I- mage of raifing Cato above ...
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againſt agreeable alfo Antients Author Beauty becauſe better Boileau Cæfar call'd Cicero cou'd Cowley Critick Death Defire Delicacy delicate Difcourfe Dryden Duke dy'd Echard English Epigram Expreffion faid falfe fame Father Bouhours fays feems feen felf felves fhall fhew fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon fpeaking French ftill fuch fure Glory Gods Gratian Heart Heaven Heroes Hiftory himſelf Honour Hyperbole Inftance Jefuit juft King laft leaft lefs Lewis loft Lord Love Lucan Mafter moft moſt Mufe muft muſt Nature noble Nonfenfe Numbers Obfcurity obferves Occafion Orator Ovid Paffage Paffion Panegyrick Pere Bouhours Perfon pleaſe Poem Poet Poetry Pompey Praife prefent Prince Profe Quintilian Reader Reafon Senfe Soul ſpeaks Sublime Tacitus Taffo tells thee thefe themſelves there's theſe Thing thofe thoſe thou Thought Tranflation Truth underſtand Verfes Verſes Virgil Voiture whofe Word World wou'd write
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Seite 344 - Thus fell the greatest subject in power, and little inferior to any in fortune, that was at that time in any of the three kingdoms; who could well remember the time, when he led those people, who then pursued him to his grave. He was a man of great parts, and extraordinary endowments of nature ; not unadorned with some addition of art and learning, though that again was more improved and illustrated by the other...
Seite 369 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Seite 91 - ... of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing; all that we admired and adored before, as great...
Seite 61 - In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods and meadows; and at the same time hears the warbling of birds, and the purling of streams; but upon the finishing of some secret spell, the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath, or in a solitary desert.
Seite 93 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing: Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air...
Seite 296 - When it does not let him sleep, it is a flame that sends up no smoke ; when it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it.
Seite 281 - Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Seite 77 - Hither, as to their fountain , other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Seite 231 - ... in a way so very becoming, that the air of the pretty gentleman is preserved, under the lowliness of the preacher. I...
Seite 91 - ... of this earth ; what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous: she glorified herself, and lived deliciously; and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow.