the strength of his personal goodness. Compare Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 4: : "In Nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind." 152: 2. sign. Of evil character. 152:6. a perpetual spur, etc. Compare from Emerson's essay on Beauty: "If a man can raise a small city to be a great kingdom, can make bread cheap, can irrigate deserts, can join oceans by canals, can subdue steam, can organize victory, can lead the opinions of mankind, can enlarge knowledge, 'tis no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine, as it ought to be, or whether he has a nose at all; whether his legs are straight, or whether his legs are amputated; his deformities will come to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the whole." 15219. upon the matter. On the whole; taking all into account. wit. Mind. 152: 24. obnoxious. Servile. officious. Dutiful. 152: 25. spials. Spies. Compare Essay XLVIII, page 169, line 24. Compare, also, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III, Sc. 1: "Sweet Gertrude, leave us too; For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, That he, as 'twere by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. - Her father and myself, lawful espials, Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, We may of their encounter frankly judge," etc. 152: 27. reason. Condition; rule of life. Still. Always. 153:2. Agesilaus. See note on page 26, line 5. Zanger. He died with grief, A.D. 1553, at the execution of his brother by his father. 153:3. Solyman. See note on page 65, line 30. Esop. See note on page 41, line 8. Gasca. Pedro de la Gasca (1485-1567) was a Spanish lawyer. He was sent to Peru in 1546 as President of the Audience, to crush the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro. He succeeded, and left Peru quietly in 1550. 153: 4. Socrates. One of the most famous of the Greek philosophers. He was born about в.c. 470 and died 399. XLV. OF BUILDING (1625) In this and the succeeding essay Bacon records some of the results of his own plans and observations, gained as master of the fine estate at Twickenham, given him by Essex, at Gorhambury, and at York House. 1535. not to look on. That is, their use as dwellings must first be considered, and afterward their appearance and decoration. Bacon by no means despised the latter, as this essay and the following extract indicate: "There was never the like number of fair and stately houses as have been built and set up from the ground, since her majesty's reign."— Observations on a Libel. 153:6. uniformity. Symmetry and correspondence were over-formal in Elizabethan architecture. 1538. houses for beauty only. Built only to be looked on 153 10. ill seat. Unfavourable site. 153: 14. knap. Knob; knoll; little hill. 153 20. ill ways. Bad roads. 153:21. Momus. A god of the Greeks representing the spirit of censure and fault-finding. Esop tells us that Momus derided Athene because she had neglected, in building a house, to provide it with wheels, that it might easily be removed from unpleasant neighbours. 154: 2. commodity. nulla commoditas.' Advantage. The Latin translation has The sense therefore is, that a 'seat' is ill' in so far as it is removed from a navigable river; or, that if it be too close to one it may suffer from the overflowing of the river. 154 5. lurcheth. Swallows; consumes. 154:11. sort. Plan; arrange. 154 13. Lucullus. Lucius Lucinius Lucullus. Born about B.C. 110, he died about 57. He became consul in 74, and thereafter defeated Mithridates and Tigranes. He built palatial villas at Tusculum and near Neapolis. Pompey. See note on page 82, line 23. 154 15. lightsome. : 154:21. Cicero. Light. See note on page 57, line 11. 154:27. Vatican. Palace of the pope in Rome. It contains, so differing accounts have it, from 4,422 to 11,000 rooms, halls, etc., and covers an area of 1,151 by 767 feet. It contains also many famous and valuable paintings. 154:28. Escurial. Or, Escorial. A noted building standing twenty-seven miles northwest of Madrid, Spain. It contains a monastery, church, palace, and the mausoleum of the Spanish sovereigns, besides a fine library and paintings. by Philip II., 1563, and was completed in 1584. by 620 feet. 1552. banquet. Dining-hall. 155: 3. Hester. See Esther i. 5. 155: 4. triumphs. Shows; entertainments. XXXVII. 155 5. returns. : It was begun Its area is 780 See Essay Turnings of the house toward the back; hence, sides of the court. 155:24. a goodly leads. A leaded roof. 155:25. statuas interposed. Statues placed at regular inter vals 155:28. newel. "A pillar of stone or wood, where the steps terminate in a winding staircase." The column to which the spiral movement conforms. 155: 30. point. Appoint. 156: 2. shall. Or, as we would say, 'will.' The student should carefully note the distinctive uses of these two auxiliary verbs. They may be found stated in almost any good grammar or rhetoric. An old mnemonic statement is given below: "In the first person simply 'shall' foretells, Contained within. on the outside. The 156 10. cast into. phrase modifies 'turrets.' 156 16. side alleys. : Paved walks bounding the court. cross. Similar walks bisecting each other, in the shape of a cross, from each side of a court. 156: 17. the quarters to graze. court thus left to be turfed. 156:23. chambers of presence. The four sections of the Audience-chambers. 156: 25. a double house. Having interior courts. See the succeeding phrase, and see also page 157, line 10. 156:27. cast. Arrange. 157: 1. become. Come. Intensive. A rare use. 1572. embowed windows. Bow windows. 157:21. paved. The paths around and across it only, the remainder being turfed. 157 24. foresee. Plan; provide. : 157:28. upon the ground-story. This refers to the end of the inner court. 157:29. the third story. On all three sides' is added in 158:22. a garden. The Garden of Eden. See Genesis ii. 8-iii. 24. 158:23. the purest. Compare T. E. Brown's lines on the beauty and · godliness' of gardens:— "A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot, The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not— Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, — but I have a sign; 'Tis very sure God walks in mine." -My Garden. 159: 12. stoved. Kept warm. warm set. So placed as to derive most benefit from the sun. 1602. ribes. Red currants. 160: 4. satyrian. Orchis. 160: 12. melocotones. A peach-like fruit. 160:18. ver perpetuum. 160:24. fast. Retentive. Eternal spring.' |