Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio; Or, The Unveiling of His Concealed Works and Travels, Volume 1Gay and Bird, 1905 - English literature |
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Page 1 - rear, Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was: In memory of her when she is dead, Her ashes in an urn more precious Than the rich-jewel'd coffer of Darius, Transported shall be at high festivals Before the kings and queens of France.
Page 171 - them : wherein our fault is the greater, because both history, poesy and daily experience, are as goodly fields where these observations grow; whereof we make a few posies to hold in our hands, but no man bringeth them to the confectionary that receipts might be made of them for the use of life.
Page 178 - but this is true, that of the methods of commonplaces that I have seen, there is none of any sufficient worth ; all of them carrying merely the face of a school, and not of a world, and referring to vulgar matters and pedantical divisions without all life or respect to action.
Page 103 - So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee'? Not
Page 170 - The first article of this knowledge is to set down sound and true distributions, and descriptions of the several characters and tempers of men's natures and dispositions, especially having regard to those differences which are most radical, in being the fountains and causes of the rest.
Page 124 - We are much beholden to Machiavel and others that wrote what men do, and not what they ought to do. For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine simplicity, except men know
Page 195 - the state of favour, disfavour, prosperitie, adversity . . . and all other moodes of private fortunes or misfortunes, in which traverses, I know, his purpose was to limn out such exact pictures of every posture in the minde, that any man might see how to set a good countenance upon all the discountenances of adversitie
Page 196 - history at large, it is set down with all circumstances, which may sometimes control the discourse thereupon made, and sometimes supply it as a very pattern for action; whereas the examples alleged for the discourse's sake, are cited succinctly, and without particularity, and carry a servile aspect toward the discourse which they are brought in to make good.
Page 173 - But the poets and writers of histories are the best doctors of this knowledge, where we may find painted forth with great life, how affections are kindled and incited; and how pacified and refrained; and how again
Page 122 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.