 For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind. But to ascribe unto it that which is due; for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs,...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 65by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...truths.f 3. Of the interpretation of mysteries, parabolical poesy. In poesy there is no difference for being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth,...but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Learning and scholarship - 1825 - 428 pages
...inventor of many of them. In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth,...but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 520 pages
...inventor of many of them. In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth,...but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expressing of affections, passions, cor ruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...parj^of learning, which is poesy^I can rejioryno deficieqcc. For being as a plant that cometh ofthe lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath...but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...felt in each and all of its branches,' he said, that he could report no deficiency in poetry, ' for being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth,...hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other seed,' But there are seasons in . . which which even mushrooms fail. The first half of George the Third's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...felt in each and all of its branches,' he said, that he could report no deficiency in poetry, ' for being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a foimal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other seed.' But there are seasons in... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 330 pages
...to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things, to ascribe unto it that which is due for the expression...and customs, we are beholden to poets' more than to philosophers' works; and, for wit and eloquence, not much less than to orators' harangues.'—Advancement... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...inventor of many of them. In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth,...but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expressing of affections, passions, cor ruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - Sacred annual - 1834 - 368 pages
...to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things, to ascribe unto it that which is due for the expression...and customs, we are beholden to poets' more than to philosophers' works; and, for wit and eloquence, not much less than to orators' harangues.'—Advancement... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...inventor of many of them. In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no déficience. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal *ed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind : but to ascribe unto it that VOL.... | |
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