 It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him....  A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays - Page 251by Francis Thompson - 1910 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...blacks and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is n« passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupieth it; nay, we read, after Otho... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of...about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge trinmphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupieth... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...fear to go in the dark " ; and yet it is so far from being universally true, as Lord Bacon remarks, " that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it sometimes mates and masters the fear of death." Mori vcllc, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of...the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it: nay, we read, after... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of...the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it ; honour * See note A at the end. aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of...the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it ; honour * See note A at the end. aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of...the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour * See note A at the end. aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of...combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after... | |
 | William Jevons - 1827 - 424 pages
...of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. xvi. " It is worthy of observing," says Lord Bacon, "that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak,...combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flietlt to it ; fear preoccupieth it." &c. Bacons Essays.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of...about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumph* over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupieth... | |
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