The Works in Verse and Prose (including Hitherto Unpublished MSS) of Sir John Davies, Band 2

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private circulation, 1876
 

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Seite clxv - But tell me, tell me! speak again, Thy soft response renewing— What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?' Second Voice 'Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Seite xxx - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Seite clvi - 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 am one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall ! I...
Seite cxix - Three days after, he was interred in S. Martin's Church, London. Later a double inscription for himself and his widow (who was re-married to Sir Archibald Douglas,) long hung on the third pillar, near the grave. The original Latin, with our translation, are as follow...
Seite cl - Davies, however, has conquered its difficulties ; and, as has been observed, " perhaps no language can produce a poem, extending to so great a length, of more condensation of thought, or in which fewer languid verses will be found...
Seite cxlii - We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, до stream meanders, or can possibly meander, level with its fount. In the next place, if streams did meander level with their founts, no two motions can be less like each other than that of meandering level and that of mounting upwards.
Seite 178 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit? or whither shall I go then from thy presence ? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there ; if I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Seite clix - Is it because the mind is like the eye, Through which it gathers knowledge by degrees — Whose rays reflect not, but spread outwardly — Not seeing itself when other things it sees?
Seite cxlvi - Davies's poem, and bestow a little attention on thoughts which were meant, not to gratify the indolence but to challenge the activity of the mind, we shall find in the entire essay fresh beauties at every perusal : for in the happier parts we come to logical truths so well illustrated by ingenious similes, that we know not whether to call the thoughts more poetically or philosophically just. The judgment and fancy are reconciled, and the imagery of the poem seems to start more vividly from the surrounding...
Seite cxxx - The Nature of Man. A learned .and useful Tract written in Greek by Nemesius, surnamed the Philosopher ; sometime Bishop of a City in Phoenecia, and one of the most ancient Fathers of the Church.

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