Yale Studies in English, Volym 17Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1903 - 373 sidor |
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... Chaucer in the Canons Yeoman's Tale . Whether Chaucer's satire or the statute , or other cause effected it , I do not know , but for some reason alchemy declined , and we hear no more about it until towards 1450 . The reign of Henry VI ...
... Chaucer in the Canons Yeoman's Tale . Whether Chaucer's satire or the statute , or other cause effected it , I do not know , but for some reason alchemy declined , and we hear no more about it until towards 1450 . The reign of Henry VI ...
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... Chaucer's fate so late as 1652 , when Ashmole printed the Canons Yeoman's Tale as the work of a believer 1 . ) It was the idea of the unity of everything coupled with the mutability of everything . Everything except the stone was slowly ...
... Chaucer's fate so late as 1652 , when Ashmole printed the Canons Yeoman's Tale as the work of a believer 1 . ) It was the idea of the unity of everything coupled with the mutability of everything . Everything except the stone was slowly ...
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... Chaucer calls it orpiment , which is trisulphid of arsenic . The four spirits are the fundamental things by use of which the bodies are changed . As Lyly has it , ' We call those spirits that are the grounds of our arte , and as it were ...
... Chaucer calls it orpiment , which is trisulphid of arsenic . The four spirits are the fundamental things by use of which the bodies are changed . As Lyly has it , ' We call those spirits that are the grounds of our arte , and as it were ...
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... Chaucer 1 well described a post - mortem held on an unsuccessful experiment by a group of alchemists . The vessel containing their hopeful mixture had burst under the strain of the gases generated within : Whan that our pot is broke ...
... Chaucer 1 well described a post - mortem held on an unsuccessful experiment by a group of alchemists . The vessel containing their hopeful mixture had burst under the strain of the gases generated within : Whan that our pot is broke ...
Sida 36
... Chaucer had satirized it in 1390. Lyly called it an empty fraud in 1590. But it would not down for all that . Many years afterward Sir Isaac Newton made alchemical UNI experiments , and we know that Leibnitz was secretary 36 Introduction.
... Chaucer had satirized it in 1390. Lyly called it an empty fraud in 1590. But it would not down for all that . Many years afterward Sir Isaac Newton made alchemical UNI experiments , and we know that Leibnitz was secretary 36 Introduction.
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Sida 282 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Sida 269 - The law against witches does not prove there be any ; but it punishes the malice of those people, that use such means to take away men's lives : if one should profess that by turning his hat thrice, and crying buz, he could take away a man's life, though in truth he could do no such thing : yet this were a just law made by the state, that whosoever should turn his hat thrice, and cry buz, with an intention to take away a man's life, shall be put to death.
Sida 335 - It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
Sida 236 - Sir, I can take no knowledge That they are yours, but by public means. If you can bring certificate that you were gull'd of 'em, Or any formal writ out of a court, That you did cozen yourself, I will not hold them.
Sida 269 - She that pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers: But if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe she drops a tester.
Sida 357 - em, no, not Jonson in his height, Could pass without allowing grains for weight. Think it not envy that these truths are told, Our poet's not malicious, though he's bold.
Sida 132 - And I would know by art, sir, of your worship, Which way I should make my door, by necromancy, And where my shelves ; and which should be for boxes, And which for pots. I would be glad to thrive, sir : And I was wish'd* to your worship by a gentleman, One Captain Face, that says you know men's planets. And their good angels, and their bad.
Sida 19 - The objects of the association, as set forth in its constitution, are ' the theoretical and experimental study of evolution and of the transmutation of bodies. Its members, with this end in view, study the processes of the ancient alchemists and compare them with the work of modern chemists.
Sida 54 - Plainely \l~\aying open those pernitious sleights that hath brought many ignorant men to confusion.