 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 Seiten
...without a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind [of learning] : but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the...affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholden to poets more than to the philosopher's works ; and for wit and eloquence, not much less than... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 Seiten
...his Advancement of Learning ; 'In this part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficiency. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the...it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any kind. ' English literature ran its vigorous course through the reign of Elizabeth and the first part... | |
 | 1859 - 446 Seiten
...unto the nature of things. In this part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficiencies ; for, being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the...sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind." Thus, as he looked back on the crude productions of times by no means rich in profound thinkers, wrote... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 Seiten
...his Advancement of learning: 'In this part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficiency. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the...it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any kind.' English literature ran its vigorous course through the reign of Elizabeth and the first part... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 Seiten
...third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. For being as a plant that comcth of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it...but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expression of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholden to poets more than to... | |
 | William Thomson - 1880 - 382 Seiten
...incompatible; one rather quickens the other's efficiency. To poesy Bacon freely ascribes that which is its due. " For the expressing of affections, passions,...and customs, we are beholding to poets more than to philosophers' works; and for wit and eloquence not much less than to orators' harangues. But it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 Seiten
...interpose no opinion. 9 In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. 1 For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the...but to ascribe unto it that which is due, for the expression of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholden to poets more than to... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 Seiten
...space. In its cultivation, Bacon, living in the prime of Elizabethan literature, can find no deficience, "for being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the...sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind." We are indebted to it " for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs. But,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 Seiten
...odes are included. Z 4 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...abroad more than any other kind. But to ascribe unto it tbat which is due ; for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholding... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 Seiten
...learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficiencies. For being as a plant that cometh of the heart of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath sprung...that which is due for the expressing of affections, fancies, imaginations, and customs, we are beholden to poets more than to the philosopher's work ;... | |
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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,... 
