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... Dorastus and Faunia , " and " Pandosto ; or , the Triumph of Time . " PANDOSTO ; OR , THE TRIUMPH OF TIME . Among all the passions wherewith human minds are perplexed , there is none that so galleth with restless despite , as the ...
... Dorastus and Faunia , " and " Pandosto ; or , the Triumph of Time . " PANDOSTO ; OR , THE TRIUMPH OF TIME . Among all the passions wherewith human minds are perplexed , there is none that so galleth with restless despite , as the ...
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... Dorastus , about the age of twenty years : a prince so decked and adorned with the gifts of nature : so fraught with beauty and virtuous qualities , as not only his father joyed to have so good a son , and all his commons rejoiced that ...
... Dorastus , about the age of twenty years : a prince so decked and adorned with the gifts of nature : so fraught with beauty and virtuous qualities , as not only his father joyed to have so good a son , and all his commons rejoiced that ...
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... Dorastus , thy youth warneth me to prevent the worst , and mine age to provide the best . Opportunities neglected , are signs of folly : actions measured by time , are seldom bitten with repentance : thou art young , and I old age hath ...
... Dorastus , thy youth warneth me to prevent the worst , and mine age to provide the best . Opportunities neglected , are signs of folly : actions measured by time , are seldom bitten with repentance : thou art young , and I old age hath ...
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... Dorastus , why dost thou blaze that with praises , which thou hast cause to blaspheme with curses ? Yet why should they curse Love that are in love ? Blush , Dorastus , at thy fortune , thy choice , thy love : thy thoughts cannot be ...
... Dorastus , why dost thou blaze that with praises , which thou hast cause to blaspheme with curses ? Yet why should they curse Love that are in love ? Blush , Dorastus , at thy fortune , thy choice , thy love : thy thoughts cannot be ...
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... Dorastus ' fancy , as he commended himself for making so good a choice , think- ing , if her birth were answerable ... Dorastus , " I guess at thy thoughts ; thou art in love with some country shepherd . " " No , sir , " quoth she ...
... Dorastus ' fancy , as he commended himself for making so good a choice , think- ing , if her birth were answerable ... Dorastus , " I guess at thy thoughts ; thou art in love with some country shepherd . " " No , sir , " quoth she ...
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answer Apicius Aristotle Ballitore beauty Beglerbeg better body Cæsar called cause Christian Church common dear death delight desire discourse divers Dorastus doth Edmund Burke Egistus enemies England English Euphues excellent eyes father favour Fawnia fear fortune friendship Gisippus give hand happy hath heard heart Henry Wotton honour Hudibras Imoinda Isocrates kind king labour Laurence Sterne learning liberty live Lord manner marriage matter means mind nature never noble occasion Oroonoko Pandosto Parliament passion persons philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poet polypus praise Prester John Prince quoth reason Richard Steele ship Slaves soul speak Stamp Act Tatler tell thee things thou thought Timariots tion told took true truth Turkes unto virtue vnto whole wife wise words worthy write young
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Página 283 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 115 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 146 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 113 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Página 114 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring: for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business...
Página 146 - Behold now this vast city ; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection. The shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguerd truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Página 76 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 114 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 236 - As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes, that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and' qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Página 76 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit), is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...