I was thinking "body of text" -- does EEBO support text searching
enough to attempt this sort of thing yet? Examples from RE:
Advancement of Learning:
2. But these, and the like
imputations, have rather a countenance
of gravity than any ground of justice: for experience doth warrant,
that both in persons and in times, there hath been a meeting and
concurrence in Learning and Arms, flourishing and excelling in the
same men and the same ages. For, as for men, there cannot be a better
nor the like instance, as of that pair, Alexander
the Great and
Julius Cesar the Dictator; whereof the one was Aristotle's scholar in
philosophy, and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence:
Ester Hath Hang'd Haman:
In the time of the Danes,
chaste Æmma, whose
innocency carried her naked feete ouer the fire-hot
Plow-shares vnfelt; with the Saxons Queene Elfgiue
the holy widdow, and the Kings daughter Eanh a
Virgin Saint, both greater Conquerers then Alexander
the great, that men so much boasted of, who could
not conquere himselfe.
Book of the Courtier:
Where many most excellent
wittes in this realme
have made no lesse of this boke, then the Great
Alexander did of
Homer, I cannot sifficiently wonder that they have not all this
while from tyme to tyme done a commune benefite to profite others
as well as themselves.
Florio's Preface to Montaigne:
Who as he is happy in you,
and you in him, that like
Aristotle
to Alexander, he may in all good
learning, and doeth with all industrious
attention, instruct, direct, adorne that noble, hopefull, and
much-promising
spirit of your beloved brother and house-heire Maister Iohn
Harrington:
Mortalities Memorandum:
Great Alexander
made so great account,
Of Knowledge, that he oftentimes would say,
That he to Aristotle was more bound
For Knowledge, vpon which Death could not pray,
Then to his Father Phillip for his life,
Which was vncertaine, irkesome, full of strife.
Shepherdes Calender, October, Notes:
the mynd was
made of a certaine harmonie and musicall nombers, for the great
compassion
& likenes of affection in thone and in the other as also by that
memorable
history of Alexander: to whom when as
Timotheus the great Musitian playd
the Phrygian melodie, it is said, that he was distraught with such
vnwonted
fury, that streight way rysing from the table in great rage, he caused
himselfe to be armed, as ready to goe to warre (for that musick is very
warlike:) And immediately whenas the Musitian chaunged his stroke into
the Lydian and Ionique harmony, he was so furr from warring, that he
sat
as styl, as if he had bene in mattes of counsell.
Etc.
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