Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	young_a	youth_n	36	3	7.6144	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78017	Balzac's remaines, or, His last letters· Written to severall grand and eminent persons in France. Whereunto are annexed the familiar letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his friend Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Chapelain, Jean, 1595-1674.; Dring, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B616; Thomason E1779_1; ESTC R209057	331,826	458

comforted to behold this Ray of the Age of Eloquence at a time when one would think the Goths were newly risen again to sack Aquitaine and replant their gibberish but I concluded when I read your Latine that they were not yet Masters of the place where you were since you held out still for old Rome and their savage style had not gained you to be an abettor of it Continue I beseech you this laâ—dable designe oppose your self stoutly against the vicious imitation of some young Doctors who labour with might and maine for the re-establishment of Barbarism Their phrases are either forraigne or poetical and their Periods Rhimes and Antitheses If scurvy books afford any word either rotten with age or monstrous by the newness of it a bolder metaphor then usuall or an insolent and rash expression they rake up this dung with care and bedeck themselves with it with much curiosity They believe themselves much more handsome after taking in those ornaments then they were before This is a strange malady and a filthy love I cannot tell what their braines are made of to contemne the force the vigour and the lustre of Rome to become enamoured only on her diseases and her carkasse on her sepulcher and her ashes Or if there be any excesse in the last words what do they think they doe when they preferre before Senatours and Consulls of the Common-wealth all magnificent and glittering in their purple such poore tattered slaves the remainders of warre and persecution who after the ruine of the same Republique are come to beg and weare their ragges in the Provinces You easily discerne that in these two different Parties on our side we have our Livy our Salust our Cicero and on the other side they have their Cassiodore their Symmachus and their Apuleius coeterÃ¡que id genus ut meus ait Damon dehonestamenta Latinitatis I wish them better and sounder fancies and would very faine see an end of their rebellion against the true and lawfull Nephewes of Remus I beg of you reverend father the good examples you can bestow upon us but especially I entreat your good opinion and beseech you to believe me as truly I am Reverend father Your c. Ap. 3. 1643. LETTER V. To the reverend Father du Creux a Divine of the society of Jesus Rhetorick-Professour Reverend father I Had a sight of five or six leaves the other day which I admired and without question you saw them before me since they came from your father Sirmond he is an admirable father I have told you often but he is admirable in divers respects and is not to be lookt on only one way he is provided to instruct the learned and to delight meaner capacities he hath both the solid and the subtle part of learning and not to speak of the riches of a choise knowledge managed by a Magisteriall judgment the dispenser and regulatour of it I observe yet in his fourscore all the fire all the brave blood all the gallantry of Spirit that can be discovered in the very youth of the Demy-Gods If your Christian severity will not cannot digest that word let me say at least in the youth of such men as are more happily born then the rest I beseech you contrive it so that your young people set before them this man who is an honour both to his Age and Country as a copy how to write by and not some raw Latinists who would breed Schisms and Heresies in Eloquence who are crueller enemies of ancient Rome then ever Hannibal Iugurtha Mithridates c. They write iron and stones as they confesse themselves if not mudde and smoak as some upbraid them for Quis furor ille novus postponere casta profanis Impurasque sequi neglecto fonte lacunas Et tenebras sordesque tuo praeferre nitori Quis Romam violare luto quod Barbara vexit Tempestas olim in Latium nisi natus iniquo Sydere nunc velit Romani nominis hostis You see an enthusiasm ever possesses me when I discourse with you I sigh after next Thursday's conversation and rest Reverend father Your c. Aug. 30. 1640. LETTER VI. To the Reverend father Stephen of Bourges a Preaching Capuchin Reverend father I Send you back the Manifesto and expect the Exhortations you did me the favour to promise me It is not so much curiosity to look on them as fine things as an intention to be benefited by them as saving things that obliges me once more to desire them of you and you well remember the old Roman saying Medecines do no good unlesse they stay by it Which words cannot for they passe by without any stopping since your Latin-Country-friend will be our Nymph's Poet advise him to lay down the Character of Virgil in his Eclogues for his Idea I meet not with any Venice-glasse more polished or cleare then that Ovid's sweetnesse and facility likes me exceedingly under favour of the Critick Victorius and the Hypercritick As for Lucan Statius and Claudian they rant too high and make too loud a noise in a sick man's chamber They are Bells Drummes and Timbrels which we admit not into our Musick I write this to you in a huddle and have but this moment to tell you I am Reverend father Your c. Ap. 3. 1645. LETTER VII To Monsieur de MerÃ© Knight SIR YOur judgment is true the productions of these fine wits are neither free nor naturall A straining and forcednesse is discernable every where and aiming to become admirable they happen to be prodigious They do not consider that Monsters are produced by excesse as well as deficiency and that Giants no more then dwarfs can be said to be of a handsome stature But shall we put those you speak of in the Catalogue who talked so highly to you of the Roman Majesty and the noblenesse of their style have a care Sir how you condemne them I beg their pardon of you for a more considerable interest then their own For in earnest if they are culpable Virgil cannot be innocent if in their Poems Caesar forgets his modesty what I beseech you doth the Head of Caesars race in the Aeneids do when being asked his name he answers Sum pius Aeneas famÃ¢ super aethera notus When he proposes himselfe as a pattern and Idea of true vertue Disce puer virtutem ex me c. When he styles himselfe the great Aeneas and believes a man doth not repine to dye because t' was he that killed him Hoc tamen infelix miseram solabere mortem Aeneae magni dextrÃ¢ cadis c We will examine these three passages at our first interview though you do not give me hopes of any such thing nor your Letter promise me your company I am with all my soul SIR Your c. Oct. 4. 1646. LETTER VIII To Monsieur Colardeau the Kings Attourney in Fontenay SIR I Applaud the designe you do me the favour to impart to me and it will be

severe sages who will think it strange that a man making profession of frugality should bring into his desart the delights and luxury of the Court that a solitary person should have his boxes full of Frangipane gloâ—es he I say who in reason should be content with a paire of mittens every winter I shall not here endeavour to make his apology or to justifie that by reason which may be defended by authority and by the example of one who had credit enough to found a Sect. It will not become me Madam to be better or more wise then Aristippus who knew so well the art of mixing pleasure and temperance together he did not at all condemne the use of innocent pleasures he could make a difference betwixt stinks and perfumes and was nothing inclined to believe that aromaticall odours were infectious One day above the rest he declaâ—'d himselfe more openly upon this subject an impertinent asker of questions fell upon him in a great assembly and having held some discourse with him concerning the austerity to be observed in the lives of Philosophers upon the suddaine thinking to put him to the blush captiously inquired who it was in the company that smelt so strong of perfumes 't is I answered Aristippus and another wretch more unhappy then my selfe known by the name of the King of Persia Shall I take the boldnesse Madam to rank my selfe as the third sinner of that order and dare to intrude into so noble a society Yes Madam for once I shall renture to march by the side of this King and Philosopher who perfum'd themselves and have some reason to believe I possesse advantages above them both because in their time they had neither a Madam nor a Madamoyselle de RamboÃ¼illet to select and present them with those perfumes The Latine Poesy makes its vaunt of certaine Essences which Venus and the loves her children made present of to a Romane Lady but those Essences Madam which I expect are sent me by a nobler hand then of that Common Venus and her Cupids 't is the true Venus Urania and her adorable daughter 't is vertue it selfe embodied and become visible to the eyes of mortalls 't is perfection descended from its heavenly habitation which does me this day the honour to regale me I make my publique boast of it I look upon all the riches and possessions of the earth as things below me but as there is no glory in the world which equalls mine I must also beg your beliefe there are no acknowledgments can vye with mine though yet the greatest part of them remaine within my heart and cannot make any outward appearance but imperfectly in the protestation which I make to be allwayes with respect and veneration MADAM Your c. LETTER XXIX To Monsieur Costar SIR I Have received your Pastills your Powder and your Cushionets of Odours But what do you expect I should say of them They are no mortall things nor are they to be commended in humane termes Flora the spring the sunne and Marshall never produced so faire a fruit of their united labours or made any thing so excellent as these perfumes Our Doctor sweares they are better then those of Venus when she appear'd to her son Aeneas upon the bank of a River in Lybia Yet Virgil who is not so prodigall of Divinity as the Poets his successours gives them the appellation of divine Ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem SpiravÃªre For your Table books I look on them and consider but dare not adventure to use them I make a conscience of touching so faire things with such coorse hands as mine The plates guilding and lively colours have been bestowed on them without parsimony They would have been fit Registers for the private Cabinet of Caesar and Cleopatra I do not think when the Conquering God read a lecture to the Muses his scholars they had such handsome Note-books as these wherein they diligently writ after him Bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus Vidi docentem Nymphasque discentes c. You know the rest in Latin but not in Italian for I just now receiv'd these verses from Florence where they were made the last month Jo vidi il giuro et se mia lingua mente Con furia procellosa Schiantin le viti mie grandini acâ—rbe Vidi il Padre Lieo steso fraÌ„ l'erbe su cetra armonioso Trattar d'avorio d'or plettro lucente Vidi le Ninfe intente Sâ—arfene al canto Ã le voci argute I satiri chinar l'orecchie argute You see here I put the change upon you and deviate as much from my subject as I can The reason is because I do not intend to slubber over a thanks to you for exquisite presents I must prepare my selfe a whole moneth for it I think of consulting all my Muses and to look over all my common places nay I have a mind to take a potion for that purpose and be let blood that my spirits may be clearer and all my faculties more free and active I most humbly kisse your hands and am with passion SIR Your c. Sept. and 1644. LETTER XXX To the same SIR I Know not how I dare undertake to write to you for in the condition I am I can with truth assure you that I do not see my Letter In me tota ruens Hyems Arcton deseruit If ruens Hyems grate your eare it does more mischiefe to my Eyes But then I have an other way to expresse my self Me nebulÃ¢ turpi multo me Jupiter imbre Atque omni premit Aeolio Da mitior almÃ¢ Luce frui Pater et formosum redde serenum I do not beg Jupiter for the drying up my Rheume and use of my Nose but meerly that I may be in a condition to injoy your kindnesse or if you will have any more in the language of the immortall Gods Vt saltem Ambrosio Florae immortalis odore Muneribusque tuis fruar Ã´ vel Regibus aequis Par Arabum Costarde animo In earnest Sir your perfumes are admirable they are even better then those of the last yeare and if my Rhetorick about this subject were not quite exhausted they should be attended with as ample thanks as the divine Artenice I am without reserve SIR Your c. THE THIRD BOOK LETTER I. To Monsieur Menage SIR TO obey you I have read the Spanish Philosopher's Book a second time The title alwayes pleased me exceedingly but I cannot say any more of the rest then what I told a Gentleman of my familiaritie who first mention'd it to me I could not find what I sought in it and in my opinion the Art of the Will required all the sufficiencies of our Gassendus to be display'd answerably to its merit The Spaniard is in many places enervate and feeble in others too subtile and abstractive and repeates the same matter so often that his sixe Books might be reduc'd to lesse then the halfe of that number without any injury to

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