The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It, in Three Partitions ...

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J. Cuthell, 1821
 

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Page 400 - While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever ; Spend not then his gifts in vain ; Suns that set may rise again ; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night.
Page 197 - Phoenician by birth, and if he would tarry with her, he should hear her sing and play, and drink such wine as never any drank, and no man should molest him ; but she, being fair and lovely, would live and die with him, that was fair and lovely to behold.
Page 573 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Page 594 - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart, and will save such as be of an humble spirit.
Page 398 - It lies not in our power to love, or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stript, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Page 109 - ... stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Page 482 - world, nor the things that are in the world: if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Page 197 - ... other guests, came Apollonius ; who, by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia ; and that all her furniture was, like Tantalus' gold, described by Homer, no substance but mere illusions.
Page 199 - For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 194 - Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque, et genus aequoreum, pecudes pictaeque volucres, in furias ignemque ruunt : Amor omnibus idem.

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