 POESY is a part of learning in measure of words for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath...  Litterarhistorische Forschungen - Page 266edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...but in all other parts extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination ; which, not being tied to the laws of matter, may, at pleasure join that which nature has severed, and sever that which nature has joined ; and so make unlawful matches and divorces of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination ; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things; Pictoribits atque poetis, etc. It is taken in two senses, in respect of words, or matter ; in the first... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...divorces of things ; Pictoribus atque poetis, etc. It is taken in two senses, in respect of words, or matter ; in the first sense, it is but a character... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination ; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and divorces of things ; " Pictoribus atque poetis, &c." (Painters and poets, &c.) It is taken in two senses, in respect of words, or matter ; in the first... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination ; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...unlawful matches and divorces of things ; pictoribus, alque poetis, etc. It is taken in two senses, in respect of words, or matter ; in the first sense,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...to the imagination. 2. It is in words restrained : in matter unlicensed. The imagination not being tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things. Pictonbus atque poetis, Quidlibet audendi, semper I'nit aequa potestas. 4. Its use is to satisfy the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagigination ; which being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...unlawful matches and divorces of things, Pictoribus atgue pottis, etc. It is taken in two senses, iu respect of words, or matter ; in the first sense,... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...Barnes's Manchester Memoirs. Imagination, not being tied to the laws of matter, it may, at plea«ore, join that which nature hath severed, and sever that which nature hath joined. Lord Bacon. Imagination sometimes puts'sceptres into our hands, or mitres OB our beads; shifts the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination ; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and divorces of things ; " Pictoribus atque poetis, &c." It is taken in two senses, in respect of words, or matter ; in the first sense it is but a character... | |
 | Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...might be hashed into the smallest ' twelves.' " The imagination," says the severe Bacon, " not being tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that...so make unlawful matches and divorces of things!" Here is a mischievous privilege, of which our writers of foncy, who have commonly still less propriety... | |
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