Psuchōdia platonica: or, A platonicall song of the soul, consisting of foure severall poems; viz. Psuchozōia, Psuchathanasia, Antipsuchopannuchia, Antimonopsuchia. Hereto is added a paraphrasticall interpretation of the answer of Apollo consulted by Amelius, about Pltinus soul departed this life. By H.M.

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Página 10 - After apostrophising those Blest souls first authours of Astronomic ! Who clomb the heavens with your high reaching mind, Scaled the high battlements of the lofty skie, To whom compar'd this earth a point you find, he proceeds to compare their assailants to those "fabled Giants," who, piling Pelion upon Ossa, themselves, in turn, strove, "with raging wind,
Página 98 - I'm hurld. Nor might nor sight doth ought me move, Nor do I care to be above. O feeble rayes of mentall light ! That best be seen in this dark night, What are you ? what is any strength If it be not laid in one length With pride or love ? I nought desire But a new life or quite t
Página 91 - Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne, and every phantasm of the soul is the energie of the soul.
Página 72 - As light and thin as cobwebs that do fly In the blew air, caus'd by the autumnal sun, That boils the dew that on the earth doth lie ; May seem this whitish rug then in the scum, Unless that wiser men make't the field spider's loom.
Página 45 - True poets' skill to spring of earthly race, I must him tell, that he doth misesteem Their strange estate, and eke himselfe disgrace By his rude ignorance. For there's no place For forced labour, or slow industry Of flagging wits, in that high fiery chace ; So soon as of the muse they quickned be, At once they rise, and lively sing like lark in skie.
Página 26 - Good, do ought thaf s harsh or vain? All what he doth is for the creatures gain, Not seeking ought from us for his content: What is a drop unto the Ocean main? All he intends is our accomplishment His being is self-full, self-joyd...

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