Desire.
IF you desire that I make you a picture of the nature and perquisites of Desire, I wil tell you, It is a strange Countrey, whereunto the prodigall Child sailed, when he forsook his Fathers house to undertake a banishment: a Countrey where
The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.
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- The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.
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- Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
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- 1654.
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Corn is still in Grass; Vines in the Bud; Trees perpetually in Blossome, and Birds always in the Shell; You neither see Corn, Fruit, nor a∣ny thing fully shaped, all is there onely in expe∣ctation: It is a Countrey full of Figures, Phan∣tosmes, Illusions and hopes, which are dreams with∣out sleep. A Countrey where the Inhabitants are never without Fevers, one is no sooner gone, but another comes into its place. There dwells Cove∣tousness, a great woman, meager, lean, starven, ha∣ving round about her, a huge swarm of winged boys, of which some are altogether languishing, o∣thers cast her a thousand smiles, as she passeth a∣long; upon herself she hath an infinite number of Horse-leeches, which suck upon her to the marrow. Time looks on her a far off, and never comes neer her, shewing her an inchanted Looking-glass, wherein she sees a thousand and a thousand false colours, which amuse her, and when she hath spor∣ted enough, she hath nothing to dinner but smoke. Holy Court.
Albeit you can no ways quench the coals of De∣sire with forgetfulness, yet rake them up in the ashes of modesty.
As Pharaoh longed to know his dream: so desi∣red he to —
Desire (the nurse of perseverance) gave him wings to make the more speed.
Thus wishing my deserts still suitable to my de∣sires, and my desires ever pleasing to your de∣serts.
—More ready in desire, then able in power to serve you.
—Then which nothing could shoot righter at the mark of my desires.
—And wish you, as full of good Fortune, as I am of desire.
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She ••••a••d not 〈…〉〈…〉 desires.
Desire is a wind, that against the tide can carry us m••rrily; with it, make us flie. Feltham.
Desire so blew the fire of his new conceived rage, that —