Eleusinia [by R.T. Fisher].W. Pickering, 1836 - 220 pages |
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Ægypt agen agony ancient Aristotle Armide art thou assertors aught body bosoms breast breath brute carnal cast curse Death deed Demiurge died disease doctrine doth doubt e'en e'er earth ELEUSINIA enfans eternal fain fair fame fate fear femmes flesh flowers folly fresh glory Gnostic Haply happiness hath heart Heaven heavenly honour'd hope human immortality learn'd life's light light hope living Lucretius LXXVII man's Metempsychosis methinks misery mortal move myriads mystery nature ne'er nought o'er pain pastime perchance Philosophers Plato poison'd poor Pre-existence pride Pythagoras says seem'd sense Septuagint shew sick sigh'd sleep smile soft soul Soul's spake spirit sport Stanza strife substance sudden fear sweet tear Tetragrammaton thee thine thing thou thought thousand thro truth twas twice-told tale weary ween whence Wisdom Word young Zoroaster δὲ καὶ τὴν τὸ
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Page 213 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Page 199 - There's nothing in this world can make me joy : Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
Page 212 - ... suscipit Anchises atque ordine singula pandit. 'principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentes lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Page 213 - He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Page 181 - La verginella è simile alla rosa, ch'in bel giardin su la nativa spina mentre sola e sicura si riposa, né gregge né pastor se le avicina; l'aura soave e l'alba rugiadosa, l'acqua, la terra al suo favor s'inchina: gioveni vaghi e donne inamorate amano averne e seni e tempie ornate.
Page 216 - ... quin etiam passim nostris in versibus ipsis multa elementa vides multis communia verbis, cum tamen inter se versus ac verba necessest 825 confiteare et re et sonitu distare sonanti.
Page 206 - Insomuch as they justified a speedy fruition of their goods even for their pleasure, as men that thought they held their lives but by the day. As for pains, no man was forward in any action of honour to take any because they thought it uncertain whether they should die or not before they achieved it. But what any man knew to be delightful and to be profitable to pleasure, that was made both profitable and honourable. Neither the fear of the gods nor laws of men awed any man...
Page 198 - Aleam, quod mirere, sobrii inter seria exercent, tanta lucrandi perdendive temeritate, ut, cum omnia defecerunt, extremo ac novissimo iactu de libertate ac de corpore contendant.
Page 202 - Lemnos, and elsewhere; but so great a plague and mortality of men was never remembered to have happened in any place before. For at first, neither were the physicians able to cure it, through ignorance of what it was, but died fastest themselves, as being the men that most approached the sick, nor any other art of man availed •whatsoever.
Page 185 - Mais que les mères daignent nourrir leurs enfans, les mœurs vont se réformer d'elles-mêmes, les sentimens de la nature se réveiller dans tous les cœurs, l'Etat va se repeupler; ce premier point, ce point seul va tout reunir (a).