 The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles.  Letters - Page 44by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...called ESSAYS. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, — that is, dispersed...meditations, though conveyed in the form of Epistles.' Montaigne's Essays had appeared in 1580. The first edition of Bacon's Essays was published in 1 597.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 272 pages
...dedication to Prince Henry, " is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but essays, — that is, dispersed...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." Thus the Essays were to constitute a series of useful observations on life and character ; a handbook... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 528 pages
...word," he continues, "is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but essays, that is dispersed...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. " That Bacon had another besides this ancient model is not to be questioned, although he quotes Montaigne... | |
 | 1905 - 516 pages
...borrowed from Montagu, but the thing' itself dates back to Seneca, " whose epistles to Lucilius, if we mark them well, are but essays, that is, dispersed...meditations though conveyed in the form of epistles." In the first edition often the subjects are of a simple nature, — Discourse, Studies, Expense, Faction,... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 pages
...own book : " The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but essays, — that is, dispersed...meditations, — though conveyed in the form of epistles." Finally, much of the impetus to the change in his methods of writing, particularly after 1612, would... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 pages
...down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." Evidently Bacon kept to the French idea of the essay, a tentative and incomplete production which was... | |
 | Warren Wood - 1926 - 370 pages
...has pointed out their interrelation: " Seneca's epistles to Lucilius," he tells us, " if one marks them well, are but essays, that is dispersed meditations though conveyed in the form of epistles." This kinship may be traced in the matchless letters of Madame de Sevigne, the less clever collection... | |
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