 | 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... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 pages
...by Bacon. In a canceled preface to the edition of 1612 he had remarked of the title of his 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... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 pages
...write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's...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... | |
 | Alma Olive Carlton - 1925 - 134 pages
...are addressed to Lucilius, are actually essays rather than letters. This was noted first by Bacon: "The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, yf one marke them well, are but essaies, that is, dispersed Meditaoions, though conveyed in the forme... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 564 pages
...notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called ESSAIES." He continues : " The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essaies, — That is, dispersed Meditations, though conveyed in the form... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pages
...write certain brief notes, set 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 one mark them well, are but Essays, — that is, dispersed Meditations." What Bacon intended, that... | |
 | Hugo Friedrich - 1991 - 476 pages
...Montaigne, but with the correct idea that the essay as a prose form had classical roots. "The word [essay] is late, but the thing is ancient: for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius . . . are Essaies, that is dispersed Meditacions," he writes in the foreword to the second edition... | |
 | Michael Macovski - 1997 - 285 pages
...1612 and 1625), tells his readers of the historic link of letters to essays. Of essay, Bacon writes "The word is late, but the thing is ancient; for Seneca's...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles" (1612 edition, np). 4. Throughout the history of the Christian church, letters, such as the Epistles... | |
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Highness's princely affairs nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is... 
