item: #1 of 4
          id: A01185
      author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
       title: The vvisedome of the ancients, written in Latine by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Baron of Verulam, and Lord Chancelor or England. Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight
        date: 1619
       words: 24772
      flesch: 54
     summary: THe curiosity of Men , in prying into secrets , and coueting with an indiscreet desire to atteine the knowledge of things forbidden , is set forth by the Ancients in two examples : the one of Actaeon , the other of Pentheus . But learning and education brings it so to passe , as that it restraines and bridles mans mind , making it so to consider the ends and euents of things , as that it clippes the wings of pleasure .
    keywords: againe; bee; beginning; bodies; desire; diuine; doe; doth; earth; euen; euery; fable; gods; good; hath; haue; hauing; hee; himselfe; humane; iupiter; kind; loue; man; manner; matter; men; naturall; nature; onely; owne; pan; power; prometheus; reason; respect; seemes; selfe; shee; themselues; things; time; vnto; vpon; wee; world
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: A36242
      author: Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711.
       title: A discourse concerning Sanchoniathon's Phœnician history by Henry Dodwell ...
        date: 1681
       words: 28557
      flesch: 74
     summary: HE pretends to have had his Information from the Writings of Taautus , from the Mystical Books of the Ammonians , and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Memoires of Jerombaal the Priest of the God Jevo , the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the particular Cities and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their Temples . Sometimes , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , sometimes again , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .
    keywords: account; aegyptian; antient; author; books; byblius; design; jews; josephus; mercury; occasion; philo; phoenician; pillars; porphyry; priests; sanchoniathon; time; work; writings
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: A39702
      author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
       title: Ariadne deserted by Theseus and found and courted by Bacchus a dramatick piece apted for recitative musick / written and composed by Richard Fleckno.
        date: 1654
       words: 3986
      flesch: 66
     summary: FINIS Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Known defects for A39702.xml Defect summary 20 missing or defective tokens known defects on page A39702-002-b incomplete or missing word on page 2-b, word 77: ●ome known defects on page A39702-003-b incomplete or missing word on page 3-b, word 186: cong●uity incomplete or missing word on page 3-b, word 191: ●ersons incomplete or missing word on page 3-b, word 210: ea● known defects on page A39702-004-b incomplete or missing word on page 4-b, word 397: preserv●d known defects on page A39702-005-a incomplete or missing word on page 5-a, word 521: Mo●ses known defects on page A39702-007-a incomplete or missing word on page 7-a, word 934: understandin● known defects on page A39702-008-b incomplete or missing word on page 8-b, word 1320: Declaring the Excellency of Recitative Musick , T Is many years since I proposed unto a Soveraign Prince the cong●uity , that as their ●ersons , so their Musick should be elevated above the Vulgar , and made not only to delight the ea● but also their understandings ; not patcht up with Songs of different subjects , but all of one piece , with design and plot , accommodated to their several dispositions , and ocasions ; which they then gratiously pleased to be inclined to hearken to , when the intervening of certain unexpected accidents , diverted their ears from it , and me from farther thought thereof , till travelling into Italy I found that Musick I intended to introduce , exceedingly in vogue , and far advanced towards its perfection , which made me also more study the perfectioning my self therein , I mean Recitative Musick , being a compound of Musick and Poetry together , affecting the mind and sense with redoubled delight , since if a thing but barely pronounced has such force to move the Soul , how much more forcible must it be , when the Harmony of Musick is added to the pronuntiation ?
    keywords: ariadne; bacchus; musick; page; tcp; text; word
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: A57657
      author: Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
       title: Mel heliconium, or, Poeticall honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus divided into VII chapters according to the first VII letters of the alphabet : containing XLVIII fictions, out of which are extracted many historicall, naturall, morall, politicall and by Alexander Rosse ...
        date: 1642
       words: 43208
      flesch: 63
     summary: 4. Christ is the true Dionysius , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the minde of God , the internall Word of the Father , born of a woman without mans help , as the Graecians fable their Bacchus to be ; and yet they give a credit to their figment , and not unto our truth ; he is Liber , who makes us onely free , the great King , who hath subdued all Nations , whose Diadem is glory . {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} .
    keywords: air; apollo; beauty; cause; christ; day; death; doth; earth; eye; eyes; face; fire; god; gods; golden; good; hand; hath; head; heat; heaven; hell; hercules; iupiter; king; life; light; lord; love; man; men; minerva; moon; musick; mysteries; non; power; sea; sin; son; soul; strength; sun; thee; things; thou; thy; time; venus; wealth; wine; wings; wisdom; word
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