Opuscula miscellanea metrico-prosaica Johannis BurtonE typographeo Clarendoniano, Apud Jac. Fletcher, 1771 - 332 Seiten |
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Seite 70 - As spiders touch'd, seek their web's inmost part ; As bees in storms back to their hives return ; As blood in danger gathers to the heart ; As men seek towns, when foes the country burn. If aught can teach us aught, affliction's looks (Making us pry into ourselves so near) Teach us to know ourselves beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.
Seite 71 - tis corrupted both in wit and will. I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all : I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall. I know my life's a pain, and but a span ; I know my sense is mock'd in every thing ; And to conclude, I know myself a Man, Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
Seite 70 - Could in my brain thofe beams of fkill infufe, As but the glance of this dame's angry eyes. She within Lifts my ranging Mind hath brought, That now beyond myfelf I will not go; Myfelf am Center of my circling thought, Only myfelf I ftudy, learn and know.
Seite 165 - HOC erat in votis : modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi, & tefto vicinus jugis aquae fens, Et paulum fylvae fuper his foret.
Seite 77 - ... dicere. Caput autem eft, quod (ut veré dicam) minime facimus : eft enim magni laboris, quern plerique fugimus : quam plurimum fcribere.
Seite 70 - I will not go ; Myfelf am Center of my circling thought, Only myfelf I ftudy, learn and know. I know my Body's of fo frail a kind, As force without, fevers within can kill : I know the...
Seite 88 - ... a grammaticis accentuum notas, quam ad erudiendam in arte métrica juventutem. Nee tarnen exiftimandum fimilem, ac nunc paflim recepta ell, olim quoque fuiffe accentuum rationem ; qui enira cantus aut leftio lubfirtcre poffit, fiquis Homéricos yerfus ita ut vulgo fit, pronuntiet í '.H'.'.ÍOC ¡
Seite 70 - So do the ftorms and thunders purge the air : So working feas fettle and purge the wine : So lopp'd and pruned trees reflourifli fair ; So doth the fire the drofly gold refine.
Seite 178 - Ecclefiafticam animo compledtebatur, confilio dirigebat, audloritatc tuebatur, exemple ornabat ; in negotiis impiger & indefefTus, nihil a fe alienum putabat quod ad Clericorum jura, mores, famamque pertinebat; auftoritate ita ufus, ut nihil pro...
Seite 44 - Honos, nec lucri prava Cupido : Sed Pietas, ccelumque Fides amplexa remotum Ad majora vocat, fortunara dona ferentem Subjiciens pedibus rigidique pericula fati, Atque alio patriara monftrans fub fole jacentem.