Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	blood_n	great_a	lung_n	2,098	5	11.1885	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88516	Peri hypsous, or Dionysius Longinus of the height of eloquence. Rendred out of the originall. By J.H. Esq;; On the sublime. English	Longinus, 1st cent.; Longinus, Cassius, ca. 213-273, attributed name.; Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1652 (1652)	Wing L2999; Thomason E1294_2; ESTC R202778	38,074	113

and law in this matter Then therefore are they fitly us'd when passions rush in like a Torrent and forcibly drive them along in great numbers Detestable men sayes he Flatterers Furies who have maim'd their Country drinking and guzzling up her liberty first to Philip now to Alexander measuring her happinesse by their bellies and vices and overturning liberty and freedome from any Master which were formerly the very essence and bounds of the Grecian Felicitie Here doth the mind of the Oratour fall in upon those a band of Tropes Therefore Aristotle and Theophrastus prescribe us some allayes for the boldness of such Translations as As I may say or as it were and if I may speak it in such a manner or if a thing so daring may be spoken for such acknowledgments lessen the appearance of Boldnesse For my part I also willingly admit them yet so as I believe the number and pride of Metaphors as I said the seasonable enamel of schemes concitated passions and Generositie to be the strongest Antidotes of Height For by their force and Impetus they bear down and chase all other things before them and make the greatest ●arings of speech seem meerly necessary not permitting the Reader to weigh their number and use as being equally entranc'd with the Speaker But in all tractations of places and descriptions there is nothing so significant as numerous and continued Tropes By which means the Anatomy of an humane Tabernacle is pompously describ'd by Xenophon and much more divinely painted by Plato The head of a man he called a Cittadell and that the neck was an Isthmus rais'd in the midst between it and the breast That the muscles were plac'd there as hinges for it to turn about upon That pleasure was a bait of evill to mankind the Tongue the tryer of Taste so the heart the spring and maker of the veins and fountain of Bloud which swiftly glides through all the members which is guarded in the Quarters of the spear-men so the passages of the pores he calls streights Now for the palpitation of the heart in great fears and disturbances of anger The Gods say they preparing a remedy joined unto it the lungs which consist of a soft and bloudlesse substance having certain pipes and passages and easie conveyances least when Choler boils too much in it it be corrupted into obedience Thus did he call the house or seat of Desire a Nursery that of wrath an Andreson or place of the house wherein men only converse the spleen the Cook house of the entralls by whose excrements it being once filled it swells up with a great deal of fulsome matter Yet all these are covered over with flesh both as a defence and assistance from cold and heat and such as like wool it gently yeelds and obeys any impressions made upon it Blood he call'd the supplyer of flesh the easie currents of the veins for the better disposing of nourishment disperse themselves like channels artificially cut in a garden for to moisten it gushing through their little valunlaes or openings as through a pipe And when death approaches he sayes the faculties of the soul are loosened like the ropes of a ship setting sail and so she is set free There are many other like to these in the same place but these we have instanc'd are enough to manifest of what brave use and how conducing to Height are exchanges of words and metaphors and how much all places both passionate and expository may be beholding to them And yet we conceive should we be silent it is evident that the entertainment of figures as all other gallantries helps mainly to bring on somewhat extraordinary and too Giantly in speech And in this Plato himself hath incurr'd no little censure as one led away out of a Phrenzie of Eloquence into rough and savage Metaphors and ranting Allegories 'T is not easily apprehended quoth he that a City must be temper'd as you mingle a glasse of wine for the wine first pour'd in flyes and mantles but when once punish'd and weaken'd by the other sober god tempers it self with it and becomes good and wholesome drink To call water a sober god say they and mingling punishment were proper only for a Poet for no sober man would ever affect such pitious decadences Nay and from this place Cecilius in his discourses upon Lysias takes the boldnesse to pronounce Lysias absolutely a better Oratour then Plato byass'd it appears by two inconsiderate passions as a lover of Lysias even more then himself and more to all purposes hating Plato then he loved Lysias But as it may be all this proceeded from his prejudice and partiality so are not his considerations to be received as clear and indubitable for he makes Lysias a consummate and faultlesse Oratour and cites many lapses in Plato but it is so farre from being true that it seems not probable But I pray let us once find some perfect and blamelesse Writer §. 29. But it will be worth our pains first to enquire in the Generall whether in Poems and Orations an irregular and luxuriant greatnesse be sometimes better then a staid proportionate and steddy regulation And withall whether many vertues or the greater ought justly to obtain the primacy in speech For these questions are very proper to the disquisition of Height and therefore cannot but require our determination Now I observe that excesses of greatnesse are naturally the least pure but what is nicely exact is in danger of littlenesse Thus in sublimities as in vast estates there must be somewhat to contemn and throw away And must not this also be necessarily found that men whose understandings are of a little making never adventuring themselves in attempts of height seldome or never fall but walk on sure ground yet for all this it is not to be conceal'd that naturally all humane things are ever rather adjudg'd by the worse and the memory of the bad stands fixt and permanent but that of the good glides away and vanishes Now should I instance some no smal faults both of Homer and other Grandees though for my part as I am as little pleas'd with their failings as any man so would I rather call them voluntary errours then offences or properly failings of carelesnesse heedlesly overseen by chance in severall places by a noble pride of nature yet neverthelesse I think the greatest vertues although not equally regnant in the whole piece ought to carry the suffrage for precedency were it for no other cause then their height and greatnesse Now though Apollonius that writ the Argonauticks hath never offended and Theocritus in Pastoralls excepting some what he has of forein is most fortunate pray whether would you choose rather to be Homer or Apollonius and whether is Eratosthenes for his Erigone a Poem absolutely unblameable to be accounted a greater Poet then Archilechus that sayes many things in confusion yet proceeding from the motion and dictates of some assisting spirit which so break out