 | Alexander Henley Grant - Church year - 1869 - 646 pages
...religion ; all noble and ignoble passions have it, as well as the negation of all passion. " There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspires to it ; grief flieth to it j fear pre-occupieth it ; nay, we read after Otho the Emperor had... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...show death terrible. It is worth observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...terrible.3 It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates 4 and masters the fear of death : and therefore death...honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself,5 1 When] Whereas in point... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...blacks and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love * Work. In what sense? — Embaseth (Fr. em. or en ; Lat. in; Gr. £a<rt?, base; W. bat, shallow ;... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...blacks and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Eevenge triumphs over death ; love * Work. In what sense?— Embaseth (Fr. em, or en; Lat. in; Gr.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...It is worthy the observing,' 5 that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates1 6 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death...attendants about him that can win the combat of him.' 7 Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth'... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1874 - 540 pages
...upon a yelling mob with an unflinching countenance. To adopt the commonplace of orators, " There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion 1 Seneca. ' Mourning garmenti. in the mind of man so weak, but it mates* and masters...him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth4 it; nay, we read," after Otho the emperor... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Collections - 1966 - 964 pages
...quam mors ipsa". Bacon supposes, all Men alike. Pag e 6. Revenge triumphs over death ; love flights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear...pre-occupieth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had sla1n himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die out of mere compassion... | |
 | Richard E. Schade - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 358 pages
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. . . ."'2 English Renaissance drama provides innumerable examples of onstage killing, suicide, entombment,... | |
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It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge... 
