Category: Poetry
As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
'The heart therefore is called [Greek: kardia apo tou kerdainesthai], (_sic. i.e._ [Greek: kradainesthai]) which signifieth _to beate_ because it is perpetually moved from the i...
3. chapter xxvi of this work we read: 'Adam begat three sons and threedaughters, Cain and his twin wife Qualmana, Abel and his twin wife Deborah, and Seth and his twin wife Nōba. And Adam, after he had begotten Seth, lived seven hundred years, and...
1. ll. 54-9:As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beam...
2. cv. No mention of the ark as a link occurs, but a ship figured on thecopper coins distributed at Rome on New Year's day, which was sacred to Janus. The original connexion is probably found in Macrobius' statement (_Saturn._ I. 9) that among other...
5. ii. 279) among the papers of Sir Julius Caesar bears the statementthat the verses were written in Donne's 'great sickness in December 1623'. Professor Moore Smith is of opinion that Sir Julius Caesar may have been right and Walton mistaken, an...