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" And both with moons and tides. Nothing hath got so far, But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey His eyes dismount the highest star He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. "
Mesmeric Experiences - Page 98
by Spencer Timothy Hall - 1845 - 103 pages
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George Herbert: The Critical Heritage

C. A. Patrides - 1995 - 420 pages
...and all to all the world besides. ' Head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides. His eyes dismount the highest star: He is in little...flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. Each thing is full of duty. More servants wait on Man, Than he'll take notice of: in every path He...
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A Selection of Metaphysical Poets

Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...the subject of the line is 'waters': they feed man when falling as rain. 42 neat - well-ordered. 20 But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. His...flesh; because that they Find their acquaintance there. 25 For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heav'n move, and fountains flow. Nothing we see,...
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The Great Harmonia: The Seer

Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 410 pages
...brother ; For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moods and tides. " Nothing hath gone so far But man hath caught and kept it as his prey...star ; He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly euro our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there. " For us, the winds do blow, The earth...
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Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the ...

Stanton J. Linden - 392 pages
...call the furthest, brother: For head with foot hath private amitie, And both with moons and tides. He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh; because that they Finde their acquaintance there. [11. 13-18, 22-24] Herbert's most specifically alchemical poem is "The...
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The Seven Sisters of Sleep: The Celebrated Drug Classic

Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1997 - 308 pages
...that period, all its strength properly to produce, and bring to perfection, its flowers and fruit. Nothing hath got so far, But man hath caught and kept...flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there . More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of: in every path He treads down that which doth...
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The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Peter Harrison - 2001 - 330 pages
...correspondence accounted for the healing power of herbs. George Herbert wrote in the poem 'Man' that 'He is in little all the sphere; / Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they / Finde their acquaintance there.'243 Nicholas Culpeper, author of one of the standard seventeenth-century...
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English Spirituality: From Earliest Times to 1700

Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 572 pages
...hath got so farre, But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest starre: He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh; because that they finde their acquaintance there . . . The starres have us to bed; Since then, my God, them hast So brave...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 71

1861 - 480 pages
...know himself is to know God. " Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides ; Each part may call the...because that they Find their acquaintance there." Mysticism is naturally monotonous, for it has but one theme, and that the most abstruse of all, —...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 60

1887 - 940 pages
...take a single verse of Herbert's from Emerson's " Nature," — one of the five which he quotes : — " Nothing hath got so far But man hath caught and kept...because that they Find their acquaintance there." Emerson himself fully recognizes his obligations to " the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century,"...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 286

1915 - 860 pages
...and man, the macrocosmos and the microcosmos are linked together in closer ties of being and amity. "Nothing hath got so far But man hath caught and kept...because that they Find their acquaintance there." This theory unknown, obsolete herbalism must perforce be misprized or contemned. It is of romance that...
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