A Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 41
Page
... kind , at least in the most confiderable Inftances , I have endeavour'd to rectifie , leaving out what was Incorrigible , and making fome Improvements up and down as Oc cafion offered : And tho ' I cannot say it is now fo Correct as if ...
... kind , at least in the most confiderable Inftances , I have endeavour'd to rectifie , leaving out what was Incorrigible , and making fome Improvements up and down as Oc cafion offered : And tho ' I cannot say it is now fo Correct as if ...
Page
... kind to them than their Planets , that Poetry is al- moft grown out of Repute , and Men come strongly prejudiced against any thing of this kind , as expecting nothing but Froth and Emptiness ; and to be a Poet , goes for little more ...
... kind to them than their Planets , that Poetry is al- moft grown out of Repute , and Men come strongly prejudiced against any thing of this kind , as expecting nothing but Froth and Emptiness ; and to be a Poet , goes for little more ...
Page 3
... kind Defigns for Man : Unfeal'd to him the Book of God's Decree , And fhew'd him what must be : Alledg'd the Truth of Prophefies , Types , Figures , and Myfteries ; How needful it was to fupply , With Humane Race , the Ruins of the Sky ...
... kind Defigns for Man : Unfeal'd to him the Book of God's Decree , And fhew'd him what must be : Alledg'd the Truth of Prophefies , Types , Figures , and Myfteries ; How needful it was to fupply , With Humane Race , the Ruins of the Sky ...
Page 26
... kind , On Chance depends what's yet behind , But fure what I have feiz'd already's all my own . V. Fortune who no Diverfion knows Like Difappointment , laughs to fee How Varionfly the can her Gifts Tranfpafe , Sometimes to one ...
... kind , On Chance depends what's yet behind , But fure what I have feiz'd already's all my own . V. Fortune who no Diverfion knows Like Difappointment , laughs to fee How Varionfly the can her Gifts Tranfpafe , Sometimes to one ...
Page 31
... kind , And I'll ne'r look at Sodom which we leave behind . III . In Fields and flow'ry Meadows , Woods and Groves , The first and best Delights of humane Kind , There we'll enjoy our Loves All free , and only to our felves confin'd ...
... kind , And I'll ne'r look at Sodom which we leave behind . III . In Fields and flow'ry Meadows , Woods and Groves , The first and best Delights of humane Kind , There we'll enjoy our Loves All free , and only to our felves confin'd ...
Common terms and phrases
abfolutely abfurd againſt alfo Angels Beatific Beauty becauſe befides Bleffed bleft Blifs Cafe Caufe Chriftian chufe confequently confider Confideration confift Contemplation Creature Defign defire Difcourfe Diftinction Divine elfe enjoy Eternal Evil excellent faid fame fatisfie fecure feems felf felves fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fpeak Fruition ftand ftate ftill ftrange fuch fufficient fuppofed fure fweet Glory greateſt Habitudes Happineſs Heaven Holy impoffible infinite Inftances Intellectual Intereft laft lefs Love Meaſures Mind moft Moral moſt muft needs muſt Nature neceffarily neceffary neceffity nefs never fo Notion obferve Object otherwife Paffion perfect Perfon Plato Platonic Love pleaſe Pleaſure poffible Pofitive Praife prefent Propofition Reafon refpect Reft Religion requifite Senfe Simple Effences Soul thee thefe themfelves theſe Things think himſelf thofe thoſe thou thought tion true Truth twas twill univerfal uſe Virtue wherein whofe Wife Wiſdom World
Popular passages
Page 251 - O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto thee.
Page 10 - Let there be light/ and straight sprang forth this wondrous day. Let now the eastern princes come, and bring Their tributary offering. There needs no star to guide their flight, They'll find thee now, great King, by thine own light. And thou, my soul, adore, love, and admire, And follow this bright guide of fire. Do thou thy hymns and praises bring, Whilst angels, with veil'd faces, anthems sing.
Page 22 - Shalt be — thou know'st not what — and live — thou know'st not how! Amazing state! no wonder that we dread To think of death, or view the dead; Thou'rt all wrapt up in clouds, as if to thee Our very knowledge had antipathy.
Page 89 - Where, at the grates and avenues of sense, My soul must watch to have intelligence; Where but faint gleams of Thee salute my sight, Like doubtful moonshine in a cloudy night? When shall I leave this magic sphere, And be all mind, all eye, all ear?
Page 10 - twas done, 'tis glorious and divine, Thou dost with radiant wonders shine. The sun with his bright company, Are all gross meteors, if compared to thee. Thou art the fountain whence their light does flow, But to thy will thine own dost owe. For (as at first) thou didst but say, " Let there be light," and straight sprang forth this wondrous day.
Page 276 - ... am firmly persuaded, that our love of God may be not only passionate, but exceeding the love of women. He endeavoured to prove this from the use of church music, and maintains, that though the beauty of God be not the same with that which we see in corporeal beings, and as it comes intellectually, cannot directly fall within the sphere of the imagination; yet it is something analogous to it, and that very analogy is enough to excite a passion...
Page 2 - Stagger, and Fall to the Ground ; For God was in the Sound. The Voice of God was once again, Walking in the Garden, heard : And once again, was by the Guilty Hearers fear'd : Trembling feiz'd every Joint, and Chilnefs every Vein.
Page 38 - ... enemy's blood. The day, the signal day is come When of my enemies I must vengeance take ; The day when Death shall have its doom, And the dark kingdom with its powers shall shake. Fate in her calendar...
Page 2 - This little Victory He won, Shew'd what He could have done. But He to whom as Chief was given, The whole Militia of Heaven, That Mighty He, Declines all Guards for His Defence, But that of His infeparable Innocence ; And quietly gives up His Liberty. He's feiz'd on by the Military Bands, With Cords they Bind His Sacred Hands: But ah ! how Weak, What Nothings would they prove, Were He not held by ftronger Ones of Love.
Page 105 - He considers, that that which we call Antiquity, is properly the nonage of the world ; that the sagest of his authorities were once new ; and that there is no other difference between an...