 | 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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 Seiten
...\n& Advancement of Learning ; 'In this part of learning, which is poesy, lean 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 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... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 Seiten
...interpretation of the symbol : " In this third part of learning, which is Poetry, I can report no deficiency. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the...affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholden to poets, more than to philosophers' works ; and for wit and eloquence not much less than... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 430 Seiten
...inventor of many of them. 5. 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...the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, customs, we are beholding to poets more than to the philosophers' works ; and for wit and eloquence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 Seiten
...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, withr-1t a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad mo, han any other kind. But to ascribe... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 Seiten
...a gum which oozes From whence 'tis nourished." Timon of Athens, i. 1 (1623). From Bacon " Poesy is a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed." — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). A remarkable definition of poetry, given by Bacon eighteen years... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 Seiten
...formall seede, it hath sprung vp and spread abroad, more then any other 35 kinde : But to ascribe vnto it that which is due for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions and customes, we are beholding to Poets more then to the Philosophers workes, and for wit and eloquence... | |
 | Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach - 1916 - 490 Seiten
...contemplation of his dramatic effects. Aphoristic utter1 Advancement of Learning ( 1 605, ii. 4, 6) : ' For the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions and customs, we are beholding ( = indebted) to poets' more than to philosophers' work.' 1 Shakespeare is only alluded to onoe in... | |
 | Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 242 Seiten
...mind. ... In this third part of learning (or knowledge) which is poesie, I can report no deficience. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind. But to ascribe unto it that... | |
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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,... 
