 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...37. but doe contain, Sec. Cp. Bacon's Advancement of Learning, I. riii. 6, p. 72, ed. Aldis Wright: 'It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1874 - 346 pages
...demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, * :aisar ; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later...cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the Hie and truth. Kut the images of men's wits and knowledges C remain in books, exempted from the wrong... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1874 - 338 pages
...letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, CiBsar; no, nor of the kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1874 - 340 pages
...letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, nasties, cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ctosar; no, nor of the Kings or great personages of much later years; for the originals cannot last,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the kings,...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 560 pages
...in his Advancement of Learning, 1633:—" It is not possible to have the true pictures, or staluaes, of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years." It occurs several times in his forty-fifth Essay, and in other places. Steevens remarks that statue,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without tho loss of a syllable or letter ; during which time infinite...the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Ctesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for theoriginals cannot last,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or...the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but leese of the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished 1 It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues...the life and truth. But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither... | |
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Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished ? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus,... 
