 | Flora Masson - 1914 - 344 pages
...in weighing of ayre, and doing nothing else since they sat." — PEPYS'S Diary, February 1, 1664. " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And from the Mountains-top of his Exalted Wit Saw it himself and shew'd us it. But life... | |
 | 1907 - 474 pages
...deliverer Moses: "From these and all long errors of the way In which our wandering predecessors went. Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he passed, Did on the very border stand, Of the blest promised land; And from the mountain top of his... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - 1920 - 246 pages
...288. No one has more succinctly stated the situation than quaint Abraham Cowley in his delicious Ode: "Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren...Mountain Top of his exalted Wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But Life did never to one Man allow Time to Discover Worlds and Conquer too; Nor can... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1925 - 454 pages
...of the Royal Society, and it may be said of him, as Cowley wrote of Bacon, Moray, ' Like Moses, lead us forth at last The barren Wilderness he past, Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And from the Mountain's Top of his Exalted Wit Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.' For... | |
 | Sir William Hale-White - 1927 - 64 pages
...associations. Cowley, called metaphysical by Johnson, in his poem to this society, writes thus:— " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...he past, Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And, from the Mountain's top of his exalted Wit, Saw it himself and shewed us it " [45].... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878 - 846 pages
...predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it." Kuno Fischer says that Bacon was an " epoch-making " thinker, who put men into a new attitude towards... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864 - 432 pages
...predecessors went, And, like the old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts, bnt of small extent, Bacon ! like Moses, led us forth at last The barren wilderness he pass'd — Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of... | |
 | Kevin Dunn - 1994 - 266 pages
...already cited, demonstrates that Bacon's Mosaic posture was not lost on his followers. Cowley writes, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...he past, Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And from the Mountains Top of his Exalted Wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - 1994 - 294 pages
...Chancellour of both their laws, And boldly undertook the injur'd Pupils [Philosophy's] caus. . . . Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...he past, Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And from the Mountains Top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.1 During... | |
 | Marina Leslie - 1998 - 228 pages
...wandering Predecessors went, And like th'old Hebrews many years did stray In Dessarts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...he past, Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And from the Mountains Top of his Exalted Wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.60 Rather... | |
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From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the... 
