Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	great_a	see_v	world_n	7,593	5	4.4143	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47730	The drudge, or The jealous extravagant a piece of gallantry.; Zelotyde. English	Le Pays, Monsieur, 1634-1690.; Bulteel, John, fl. 1683, supposed tr.	1673 (1673)	Wing L1115; ESTC R13245	51,327	113

and this Soveraignty is not less considerable Sir than that which your Royal Ancestors have possess'd and left you invested in as their worthy Successor It is more glorious ●o have a Soveraignty over the Wits than the Rabble Heaven indeed has blest you with a considerable advantage in conserving a Crown and your Life together upon you but it speaks you her particular Favourite in endowing your Highness with all those Royal qualities which the management of that Crown with Glory required and one of these Qualities Sir and that not the least considerable is your incomparable Ingenuity Those Princes that Reign no other way then by their Authority have no other advantage than that of being fear'd of their Subjects but those that Reign with Mildness with Magnanimity and the Troop of Vertues they are adorn'd with have the happiness to see themselves belov'd respected and ador'd by their People And 't is this Sir that gets you the Love the Respect and Adoration of your Subjects when ever they speak of your Royal Highness 't is with sentiments of Veneration and with transports of Zeal for your Service and Honour which plainly shew how agreeable your Empire is to them and with what sincerity they bless Heav'n for the sweetness of your Reign over them Your Birth has made you their Prince but if your Royal Blood had not set the Crown on your Head had it been in their power you would have receiv'd it from their free E●ection We being their near neighbors have often Commerce with them and in their conversa●ion whereof their Soveraign makes the most charming and agreeable part of it we see them very often open their hearts to us and speak their thoughts with freedom in which pleasant conversation Sir they have so well express'd that zealous respect which they preserved for your Royal Highness that they have communicated it to me I could not chuse but have as great a passion as the best of them for a Prince so truly amiable and one belov'd by all the world with so much justice and were I not a Subject of the greatest King in the world I should wish your Royal Highness for my Soveraign But Sir I should abuse my self should I make that wish is it not a happiness I already enjoy and am not I your Subject and are not you my Soveraign although neither Piedmont Savoy nor any other of your Dominions be my Countrey You enjoy a Soveraignty that extends it self farther then the bounds of your Provinces which procures you Subjects in all the reasonable parts of the world and makes your Dominions as large as that of the Muses This Empire Sir those nine immortal Ladies have established you in all places where they have any interest to testify their acknowledgement of those many Favours your Royal Highness hath made them receive The good entertainment you oblige them with is an infallible signe that you are not ignorant of their Beauties and that you have a perfect knowledge of their Merits We ought not to wonder when we see them but little esteemed in a great part of the world none can esteem them but those that know them and that is an advantage that Heaven doth not commonly bestow your Royal Highness is master of this precious advantage and I am very certain that you possess it in a very eminent degree that quick subtle and delicate Wit of yours is skill'd even to admiration in all the polite and pretty things in the world and pierces into all the secrets of our Parnassus This is that Divine Quality Sir that gives a Lustre to all your Heroick ones and crowns you King of all the Wits of the age Your Valour Justice and Generosity are great Virtues I must confess That sweetness and obliging entertainment with that agreeable Air which accompanies all your Actions and Charms all those that have the Honour to approach your Royal Person that Galantry which is so natural to you which gets you the inclinations of the Ladies and renders your Court and all your divertisements so Noble and Magnificent are glorious advantages I must avow it But all these considerable vertues and glorious advantages would it is possible be confined to your own Dominions and Strangers and Posterity would never so much as hear of them were they not attended by that our Love of the Muses Had it not been for this Honourable inclination Augustus never had received so many Elogies as he did and his Glory it may be had never reached our Ears It is this that makes your Vertues commended and talkt of beyond the limits of your Provinces and shall do too far beyond that short course of your life that you spend so gloriously and that merited Eternity it is this that invests you with a Soveraignty over all the Vertuosi in the world and to which I am obliged for the happiness I enjoy to stile my self your Subject It is possible it is an excess of vanity in me to reckon my self among the Wits but when one has once obtain'd the happiness to please your Royal Highness he may without arrogance assume that glorious Title with all its appendages and in that condition to which your Royal Highness has been pleased to advance me I should offend your judgement should I have a bad opinion of any thing that I call mine I have so highly esteemed my parts since I was informed your Royal Highness did not despise them I judged them capable of conferring something to your Royal pleasure Since my first works have taken the boldness to pass over the Alps without my Commission and yet had the happiness to please all your Court though I durst not hope it I imagined that those I should my self send over thither and which had no other designe but that of your Royal Highnesses Divertisement would not be so unhappy as to come off worse then the former It is a great design without question that I engage upon and I should say even a rash and inconsiderate one if a person had not advised me to it that I am confident is too prudent to counsel me to any such undertakings it is Sir a Gentleman of your Dominions that hath the honour both to be known and belov'd of his Prince that hath been pleased to give himself the trouble to bring my Muse into your Court and that hath wrote me word of the good entertainment it received from your Royal Highness This generous friend of mine could not possibly procure me a more glorious advantage nor one that I more vehemently desired but that which hath exceeded all my hopes and created in me the most pleasant surprize imaginable is that incomparable goodnes that he was pleased to have for me in communicating a Letter of your Royal Highness to me in which you graciously vouchsafed to witness that you esteemed my works and that you should be very well satisfied to see me make some more of them for your divertisement This Letter was