 | 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 - 1827 - 650 pages
...were 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...hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other seed.' But there are seasons in which even mushrooms fail. The first half of George the Third's reign... | |
 | 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 - 1827 - 648 pages
...were 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...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... | |
 | 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...is due, for the expressing of affections, passions, cor ruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than to the philosophers' works; and for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...the second principal part of human learning — " Poesy," in which he can report no deficience. " It being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth,...abroad more than any other kind : but, to ascribe to it that which is due, for the expression of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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, without a formal teed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kiad : but to ascribe unto it that VOL.... | |
 | John William Cole - 1839 - 192 pages
...Advancement of Learning," Book II., "In this part of learning which is poesy, I can report no deficience. 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... | |
 | John William Cole - 1839 - 194 pages
...Advancement of Learning," Book II., "In this part of learning which is poesy, I can report no deficience. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...inventor of many of them. In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no defieience. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the...beholding to poets more than to the philosophers' works l and for wit and eloquence, n;it much less than to orators' harangues. But it is not good to stay... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...each of them. In Poesy our author professes to be able to report no deficience. " For," he observes, " being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth,...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...them. In Poesy our author professes to he ahle to report no deficlence. " For," he ohserves, " heing as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread ahroad more than any other kind. But, to ascrihe unto it that which is due, for the expression of affections,... | |
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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,... 
