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His imagination runs away with its object, and excites a passion proportion'd to it.

Philosopher in a High Place 2005

His imagination runs away with its object, and excites a passion proportion'd to it.

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

In “At a Solemn Musick,” “divine sounds” of “Voice, and Vers” present to the “high-rais'd phantasie” a vision (not here called ecstasy) of heavenly singing, from which phantasy rises still higher to understanding of inaudible music made by God among men, which sounded “In perfect Diapason” until broken by “dis - proportion'd sin.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

_Theodora_ receiv'd this moving Letter with a Concern proportion'd to the melancholly Occasion; she communicated it to an intimate

Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

The second Sort have also the Parts of a Man very well proportion'd, that serve either the Functions of Life or Generation; but they have a

Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

'Tis also evident that the Ills which a Shepherd falls into, from some slight, and almost inevitable Slip (from which the Moral is form'd) must be infinitely less than those which embarrass a Hero; because Ills must be proportion'd to the Fault; and 'tis plain, the Faults of a Swain are suppos'd to be very minute.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Gobs, must for these puny Stomachs be minced to Atoms; the Plums must be pick'd with the utmost Care, and every Ingredient proportion'd to the greatest Nicety, or it will never go down.

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

On the whole, I proposed as a more effectual watch, the hiring of proper men to serve constantly in that business; and as a more equitable way of supporting the charge the levying a tax that should be proportion'd to the property.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1994 Edition) 1909

Out of an Entry you Come into a very Lofty good hall, ye Screen at the Lower End (wch divides it from ye Entry) is ffinely Carv'd, the parlour and drawing roome are well proportion'd roomes, and ye wanscoate is all well Carv'd, ye moldings of ye doores and Chimneys are finely Carv'd wth Staggs and all sorts of beasts, woods and some leaves and flowers and birds and angells &c.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

We enter a good Lofty hall, in it hangs the Ship in wch he was lost, that is the representation of it Cut out in Little and all things Exactly made to it; there is a good parlour and drawing roome: well proportion'd are ye rooms wth good old ffurniture and good Pictures.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888