 That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was...  Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham - Page 26by John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...flatterers have intelligence,1 is a man's self? certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved ; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and be wise? Neither doth this weakness appear to others... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self : certainly the lover is more. For there was never a proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved. And therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and 35 be wise. Neither doth this weakness appear to others... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self; certainly the lover is moiv. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved ; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible h> love and to be wise. 3 Neither doth this weakness appear to... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 476 pages
...deprecating terrestrial hope, deprecates also the illusions of love. " For there was never a proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved. And, therefore, it was well said, that it is impossible to love and be wise." But once more the common sense and experience... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self ; certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved ; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love, and to be wise. Neither doth this weakness appear to... | |
 | 1851 - 1006 pages
...speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love;" that "there never was a proud man who thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved ;" that " love is ever rewarded with the reciprocal, or with an inward contempt ;" that " it hath its... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...subject, though not of the mouth (as beasts are), yet of the eye, which was given him for higher purposes. of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, ' That it is impossible to love and to be wise.' 9 Neither doth this weakness appear... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self : certainly the lover is more. For there was never a proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved. And therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and 3s be wise. Neither doth this weakness appear to others... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self; ' certainly the lover is more ; for there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved ; and therefore it was well said, ' That it is impossible to love and to be wise.'9 Neither doth this weakness appear... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self;" certainly the lover is more; for there was never a proud settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Protcus, or to define the was well said, " That it is impossible to love and to be wise." Neither doth this weakness appear to... | |
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