 ... them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, " That speech...  Litterarhistorische Forschungen - Page 53edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...It spreads the beauteous images abroad Which else lie furled and shrouded in the soul. — Speech is like cloth of arras opened and put abroad, whereby...appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but in packs (ie rolled up, or packed up). Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. — POPE : Homer's... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...finally, he waxeth wiser than himself ; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are...of a head filled by long reading and observing, wit FROM 1558 TO 1625. figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is this second fruit... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. ell, ! • Philippe de Commines began his career at the court of Charlei la Hardi, Charles the Bold, Duke... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...finally, he waxeth wiser than himself ; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia,...speech was like cloth of arras, opened and put abroad ;l whereby the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs." Neither... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 562 pages
...oration was exposed, and to prepare the materials, and the arrangement of them, for defending it. " It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, that speech was like cloth of Arras," &c. Themistocles might as well have spoken of velvet of Genoa and satin of Lyons. On Expense there... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...finally, he waxeth wiser than himself : and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia, that speech was like cloth O/\K Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse, than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia,...figure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends,... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 pages
...original sense, it is, like many of the old Italian proverbs, worldly wise and profoundly immoral. 27. TT was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia,...appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but in packs" (ie rolled up or packed up). Dryden had evidently this passage in his mind when he wrote... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...fall of a SPARROW. Speech. — SPEECH is silver, silence is gold. — German Prorcrb. — SPEECH is like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby...figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. — PLUTARCH, Life of Themistocles. BACON'S Essays, Oа Friendship. Speech was given to man to conceal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the king of Persia,...like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby tfie imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Neither is the second... | |
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