 | Ben Jonson - 1739 - 116 pągines
...Stone » • / Where it retains more of the humid fatnefs, It turns to Subphur, or to Quick/liver, Who are the Parents of all other Metals. Nor can this remote Matter fuddenly Progrefs fo from extreme unto extreme, As to grow Gold, and leap o'er all the Mean?." Nature... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1756 - 434 pągines
...becomes a ftone. Where it retains more of the humid fatnefsj It turns to fulphur, or to quickfilver, Who are the parents of all other metals. Nor can this remote matter fuddenly Progrefs fo from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o're all the means. Nature... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 pągines
...Portion of earth ; both which, concorpoDo make the elementary matter of gold ; Which ”s not yet prnpria materia, But common to all metals, and all stones, For, where it is forsaken ot that moisture, And hath more driness, it becomes a stone. Where 'it retains more of the humid fatness,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 556 pągines
...of earth ; both which, concorporate, Do make the elementary matter of gold; Which is not yetpropria materia, But common to all metals and all stones ;...where it is forsaken of that moisture, And hath more driness, it becomes a stone : Where it retains more of the humid fatness, It turns to sulphur, or to... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1836 - 480 pągines
...of earth ; both which concorporate Do make the elementary matter of gold ; Which is not yet propria materia, But common to all metals and all stones ;...sulphur or to quicksilver, Who are the parents of all ot her metals. Nor can this remote matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1836 - 478 pągines
...both which concorporale Do make the elementary matter of gold ; "Which is not yet propria maferia, But common to all metals and all stones ; For where...that moisture, And hath more dryness, it becomes a «tone ; Where it retains more of the humid fatness, Jt turns to sulphur or to quicksilver, Who are... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - 418 pągines
...of earth ; both which, concorporate, Do make the elementary matter of gold; Which is not yet propria materia, But common to all metals and all stones ;...where it is forsaken of that moisture, And hath more driness, it becomes a stone : Where it retains more of the humid fatness, It turns to sulphur, or to... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 388 pągines
...elementary matter of gold ; Which is not yet propria materia, But common to all metals and all stones ; 197 For where it is forsaken of that moisture. And hath more dryness, it hecomes a stone ; Where it retains more of the humid fatness, It turns to sulphur, or to quicksilver,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 554 pągines
...fixes the fluid mercury into a coCerent, malleable mass. So Jonson in the Alchemist, Act 2, Scene 3 : " It turns to sulphur, or to quicksilver, Who are the parents of all other metals." 678. Mammon : The god of riches ; the same as the Pluto of the Greeks and Romans. Tne delineation of... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pągines
...,..,.,. , .But common to all metals. and all stones; For, when it is forsaken of that moisture, And liath more dryness, it becomes a stone. Where it retains...quicksilver. Who are the parents of all other metals. ' ii l Nor can this remote matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grotv old,... | |
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Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature... 
