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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28452	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.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3321; ESTC R15301	117,120	245

I find not any man over vvhom he has not some advantage nor any one life vvhich take it altogether is so admirable as his The Prince He is an Anthony in clemency a Trajan in bounty and another Augustus in wisdom Though he exceeds not in those vertues which g●t admiration as depth of wisdom height of courage and the like yet he is notable for those qualities which stir affection as truth of word meekness courtesie mercifulness and liberality He was Lord of great Revenues to which his vertue not his fortune was his Title his mind was richly embroydered with all the studied ornaments of learning c. Heroinae Bravest A sooner shall the fathers bowels be silent at the sight of his long unseen son then posterity forget thy name Nor shall I rest content till I bring one grain of incense more to that great oblation which I hope the Muses will offer ere long in publick to his memory thereby to induce Historians those Goldsmiths of time in their elaborate rings the Chronicles and Relations of these days curiously to enchase this choycer Diamond to the delight and benefit of succeeding ages Of Sir I.S. The worth of worthiness hath his whole Globe comprised in his breast The gallantry of his mind was plainly legible to every eye that was acquainted with the characters of vertue In this man there were such great abilities of wit and understanding that into what Climate s●ever his nativity had cast him he seem'd to be able to command of f●rtune Bacon Men wh●●e Sentiments are Maximes and Oracles to govern the worlds beliefs and actions Sir K.D. So wel was he studied in the Art of Dying that by continuall watchings fastings prayers and such like acts of Christian humiliation his flesh was rarified into spirit and the whole man so fitted for eternall glories that he was more then halfe in heaven before Death brought his bloody but triumphant Chariot to convey him thither His head did bear the Calender of age Every man is a vast and spacious Sea His passions are the winds that swell him in disturbant waves c. Feltham A good man is like the day enlightning warming all he shines on and is always raising upwards to a Region of more constant purity then that wherein it finds the object The bad man is like the night dark obtruding fears and dimitting unwholsome vapouts upon all that rest beneath Envy her self could not detract from his worth he was learned even to an example pious up to a proverb A person that in the Hurricans of great transactions is serenely pleas'd to throw off the publick person and adopt into his tenderness and protection all that unto which worth and letters may make a claim Mr. Halls Epistle before Longinus Of the K and his letters intercepted 1645. AS a Man see but with what sagacity he writes and with what judgement see but what a clean sense he hath of things which does so overlook all his most perplexed affairs that they seem to blush they have no better difficulties See but how farre his wisdom looks into mens persons which doth so weigh them and their actions with the grains and allowance of their unworthy servile ends that he seems not more to observe then prophesie See but what an even spirit of Elegancy runs through every line vvhich beats and leaps as much in the description of his saddest condition as of his serenest fortune Insomuch that posterity will a little love his misery for her very clothing Then as a Husband do but observe how kind he is and withall how chast how full of warm expressions of love and yet how far from wanton Do but observe how he vveighs his own health by his vvives Standard every line bears a Venus in it and yet no Doves and he drives the trade of thoughts between the Q. and him with so much eagerness and yet with so much innocence in all his letters as if he meant they should be intercepted As a Christian see but what a conscience he makes of oaths esteeming them not according to the popular account as if their ceremony made them the less sacred or as too many use them in the vvorld as bracelets to their speech not as they are indeed as chains unto their souls look but how he startles at the name of Sacriledge though never so commodious a sin c. Last of all as a King see but vvhat a constant and true soul he bears to Justice vvhich none of his sad infelicities can alter A soul that vvould come off true vvere it put to Plato's triall vvho said That for a man to approve himselfe a true just man indeed His vertue must be spoyld of all her ornaments Key K. Cabinet So many excellent pens have vvritten upon his brave acts and made them so well known to all the vvorld that it vvere to bring light into day to go about to mention them H. Court He is the Pelops of wisdom and Minos of all good government Who hath not known or read of that prodigy of vvit and fortune Sir Wa. Ra. a man infortunate in nothing but in the greatness of his vvit and advancement vvhose eminent vvorth vvas such both in domestick policie forreign expeditions and discoveries in arts and literature both practick and contemplative that it might seem at once to conquer both example and imitation Mr. Nath. Carpenter Man vvho contracts in himselfe all the draughts and vvorks of the Divine hand and epitomizeth the vvhole world in his perfections and bears the most animated Character of the living God H.C. He is a noble generous and vvell-manur'd youth bears beauties ensignes in his gracious looks has that supream Divinity in his eyes as sparkleth flames able to fire all hearts and the superlative vertue of his mind transcends his outvvard figure he is vvise as most mature age valiant in resolve as fames beloved child reputaon conjoyns the masculine graces of his soul vvith lovely carriage and discreet dicourse c. Argalus and Parth. I could say much more of his vvorth vvithout flattery did I not fear the imputation of presumption and vvithall suspect that it might befall these papers of mine though the losse vvere little as it did the pictures of Q. Eliz. made by unskilfull and common Painters which by her own commandement vvere knockt to pieces and cast into the fire For ill Artists in setting out the beauty of the externall and weak Writers in describing the vertues of the internal do often leave to posterity of well-formed faces a deformed memory and of the most perfect and Princely minds a most defective representation Sir Wa. Rawl in Preface He was a man whose brave undaunted Spirit dignified his Family many stories high in the estimate of Fame The excellent endowments of his soul acknowledged even by Envy and admired by Truth together with his known propension to goodness invited me to I have been possessed with extream wonder when I consider the excellency

of ●ower function are but the Symmetry of all the beauties of her sex she is too much first to have any second from the third fourth and fifth form of women from a million or all of them you may take some peece of her not all for she her self is the All. Ask Reason what she is Reason will tell you she is her Directress that she keeps the elements at peace within us our fire she confines to religious zeal and suffers it not to enflame either to lust or supersti●ion our watry element she hath designed to quench unlawful flames c. Ask faith what she is Faith will tell you she hath yours and mine and an hundred other souls in one soul c. Were there or were there no night yet were she an everlasting day Were there none bad yet were she unparalleledly good Were there any or none to be compar'd to her yet vvere she superlative All of her is an eaven proportion of extreams Heroinae Those eyes more eloquent then all Rhetorick that would raise an Anchoret from his grave and turn the Feind Fury into the Cherubin Pitty Those vvhite and red Roses vvhich no rain but vvhat fell from those heavenly eyes could colour or sweeten Those lips that stain the rubies and make the roses blush those lips that command the scarlet coloured morn into a cloud to hide his shame That breath vvhich makes us all Chamaelions should be vvasted into unregarded sighes Those breasts eternally chaste and vvhite as the Aples those legs columns of the fairest Parian ma●ble columns that support this monument of all pens her skin smooth as the face of youth soft as a bed of violets white as the Queen of innocence sweet as bean blossoms after rain c. She shaking off those glorious loads of state retired from the crowding tumults of the Court into a solitary and truly happy Country-condition there to spin out her thred of life ●● her homely distaff where we will leave her a verier wonder then the Phoenix in the desart the alone paragon of all peerless perfections Her actions so above the Criticism of my purblinde judgment I am not able to comprehend much less contradict or controvert You are the beauty of the world the pride of all joys the sweetest fruit of best content and the highest mark of true loves ambition To her alone it appeared that heaven with a hand rather prodigal then liberal would give what it had of most value in the rich treasury of nature Stratonica Women are Angels clad in flesh The Roman Story big with variety of wonder writes Lucretia the female glory She was natures fairest paper not compounded of the rags of common mortality but so searsed and refined that it could receive no impression but that of spotless innocence Her Where'ere she comes her presence makes perpetual day They discovered A. the rich triumph of nature and in her as much as the world could boast of Her eyes inviting all eyes her lips all lips her face loves banquet where she riots in the most luxuriant feast of sense She was the model of divine perfection A flock of unspeakable vertues laid up delightfully in that best builded fold In this a very good Orator might have a fair field to use eloquence Her eyes seemed a Temple wherein love and beauty were married So many things united in perfection She hath an easie melting lip a speaking eye Venus compar'd to her was but a blowz As you are to me a Venus and strike a warm flame in me so you are Diana too and do infuse a chaste religious coldness Amorous war I stand before you like stubble before a burning glass your eyes at every glance convert me into flame Her voyce was no less beautiful to his ears then her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes Thy heavenly face is my Astronomy thy sweet vertue my sweet Philosophy You are the Diamond of the world the chief work of natures workmanship The patern of perfection and the quintessence of worth Your fair forehead is a field where all my fancies fight and every hair of your head seems a strong chain that ties me You are the ornament of the earth the vessel of all vertue With so gracious a countenance as the goodness of her minde had long exercised her unto She whose many excellencies won as many hearts as she had beholders nature making her beauty and shape but the most fair Cabinet of a far fai●er minde There 's musick in her smiles A mart of beauties in her visage meet A woman in whom vertue was incorporated goodness which comes to others by study seemed hers by nature You the type of my felicity to whom all hearts respects hopes fears and homages are sacrificed Her countenance was too sweet her speech too proper her deportments too candid to cover so b●ack a mischief She took hearts captive and made them do vassalage and homage to ●er will Where they found A. accompanied vvith other Ladies amongst vvhom her transcendent beauty and incomparable vertues made her shine with as much superiority as a star of a g●eater magnitude exceeds in splendor the less●●●●minaries of its own Spheare Her haire seemed to stand in competition with the beams of the Sun She whose rare qualities whose courteous behaviour without curiosity whose comely f●ature without fault whose filed speech without fraud hath wrapped me in this misfortune Eupheus Nature framed her to be the object of thoughts The love of hearts the admiration of souls This is she who is singularly priviledged fr●m heaven with beauties of body but incomparably heightned vvith gifts of the mind Such is her learning that she transcends men in their best faculties She this bright morning Star alwayes bears in the rays thereof joy comfort c. She was able to enthrall a●l hearts with so many supereminent excellencies as heaven had conferred upon her She had a strong and pleasing spirit a s●lid piety an a●akened wisdome an incomparable grace to gain ●earts to her devotion H.C. Nature in her promiseth nothing but goodness He could not sufficiently admire the vivacity of her spirit the solidity of her judgement the equity ●f h●r counsels and the happiness which ordinarily accompanied her resolutions H.C. She gained hearts by sweetness therein imitating the Sun which neither breakes Dores nor Windows to enter into houses but penetrates very peaceably with the benignity of his favourable b●ams The eye and tongue of this creature mutually divided his heart at one and the same instant love surprized him by the eyes and ears Endowed vvith an admirable grace and singular beauty to serve even as an Adamant to captivate hearts Fair as the Firmament vvhich vve see enamelled with so many starres that resplendently shine as Torches lightned before the Altars of the Omnipotent ●he vvho vvas the Adamant of all loves A Lady vvhose eyes vvil make a Souldier melt if ●e were compos'd of marble vvhose very smile hath a magnetick