Miscellanies Upon Various SubjectsReeves and Turner, 1890 - 301 ページ |
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according acquaintance ancient anno Anthony Wood antiquity apparition appeared ashes Aspasia Aubrey Barwick body bones BRAMPTON Brancaster burial buried burning burnt Cæsar called chimæras Christians church coins Commodus conjecture Crostwick cure Cuthred Cyrus dæmon dead death died discourse dream Earl earth Elias Ashmole Emperor eyes father fell fire funeral gentleman ghosts grave hand handsome hath head heard Henry Herefordshire honour horse HYDRIOTAPHIA Iceni inscriptions interment John JOHN AUBREY Julius Cæsar King Charles King James Lady living London Lord married monuments murdered night noble observed parish Parysatis Patroclus persons pieces practice pyre Query reign relicks Roman Rome saith Scotland second-sight seems sent September sepulchral sepulture servants soul spirits stone story Tacitus tell Tetricus things thirty tyrants Thomas tion told unto urns Vespasian wherein whereof wife William Wiltshire woman
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292 ページ - God who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal luster, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
288 ページ - To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
286 ページ - Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity, as emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices.
295 ページ - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...
291 ページ - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity.
295 ページ - To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.
294 ページ - If in the decretory term of the world we shall not all die but be changed, according to received translation; the last day will make but few graves; at least quick resurrections will anticipate lasting sepultures; Some graves will be opened before they be quite closed, and Lazarus be no wonder. When many that feared to die shall groan that they can die but once...
284 ページ - Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests: what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim ? * Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments...
91 ページ - Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition : being demanded, whether a good spirit, or a bad 1 returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang.
84 ページ - And, upon examination, the abortion proved to be the same day, and about the very hour, that Mr. Donne affirmed he saw her pass by him in his chamber.