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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms ... - Page 12
by Robert Burton - 1881 - 747 pages
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...plainly as it happens. So that as a River runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow; now direct, then per ambages; now deep, then shallow...flow : now serious, then light; now comical, then satyrical ; now more elaborate, then remisse, as the present subject required, or as at thai time I...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pages
...plainly as it happens: so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow; now direct, then per ambages; now deep, then shallow...flow — now serious, then light ; now comical, then satyrical ; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required, or as at that time I...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pages
...plainly as it happens : so that, as a river runs, sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow; now direct, then per ambages; now deep, then shallow...flow — now serious, then light; now comical, then satyrical ; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required, or as at that time I...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy ...: To which is Prefixed, a Satyricall Preface ...

Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 pages
...runs, sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per ambages ; nowdeep, t mine age dlnlaln, De sene nam juvenem, Dla, refcrre...make an old man yong again. They will be still si satyrical ; nowmore elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required, or as at that time I was...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - 1849 - 610 pages
...plainly as it happens. So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per ambages ; now deep, then shallow...vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall seem no othenvise to thee, than the way to an ordinary traveller; sometimes fair, sometimes foul ; here champion,...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

Robert Southey - 1849 - 656 pages
...plainly as it happens. So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per ambages ; now deep, then shallow...subject required, or as at that time I was affected. And ifthou vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall seem no otherwise to thee, than the way to an ordinary...
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Common-place Book

Robert Southey - 1849 - 650 pages
...plainly as it happens. So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow; now direct, then per ambages; now deep, then shallow;...subject required, or as at that time I was affected. Andifthou vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall seem no otherwise to thee, than the way to an ordinary...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1849 - 428 pages
...few exceptcd, like Spanish that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per ambages; now deep, then shallow;...now comical, then satirical ; now more elaborate, loiterers, we live wholly by tippling inns and ale-houses; malting are their best ploughs; their greatest...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1849 - 428 pages
...plainly as it happens. So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per ambages ; now deep, then shallow ; now muddy, then clear ; now brund. then narrow; doth my style flow : now f-eriuus, then light ; now comical, then satirical ; now...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms ...

Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 pages
...plainly as it happens. So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; of calamities. Л Description of Melancholy.] ; полу more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required, or as at that time I was affected....
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