 ... than the fancy. This seems, however, to have been the case with Bacon. His boyhood and youth appear to have been singularly sedate. His gigantic scheme of philosophical reform is said by some writers to have been planned before he was fifteen; and...  The North British Review - Page 2491864Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 pages
...came first," says Mr. Macaulay, " and remained till the last ; the blossoms did not appear till late. In eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression,...richness of illustration, his later writings are far 1 Tattler, No. 267. superior to those of his youth." His earliest Essays have as much truth and cogent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...came first," says Mr. Macaulay, " and remained till the last ; the blossoms did not appear till late. In eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression,...richness of illustration, his later writings are far 1 Tattler, No. 267. 2 Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 pages
...writers to have been planned before he was fifteen, and was undoubtedly planned while he was still young. Ganges were worn every day by the footsteps of an...Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical In this respect the history of his mind bears some resemblance to the history of the mind of Burke.... | |
 | 1885 - 626 pages
..."invention," or imagination. No wonder then that, as Lord Macaulay wrote and as all may observe : " In eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression, and in richness of illustration, his later works are far superior to those of his youth." No wonder, too, that after Bacon's death, when comparing... | |
 | 1886 - 740 pages
...the judgment grows faster than the fancy. This seems however to have been the case with Bacon . . . He observed as vigilantly, meditated as deeply, and...his later writings are far superior to those of his youth'.11 Such being the case in Bacon's prose writings, it would only be reasonable to expect that... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1886 - 328 pages
...noticed that Bacon's writings towards the close of his career exceeded those of his youth and manhood " in eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression, and in richness of illustration." l He adds : " In this respect the history of his mind bears some resemblance to the history of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 pages
...before he was fifteen, and was undoubtedly planned while he was still young. He observed as vigilimtb", thod correctly, though he undoubtedly analyzed it more minutely than any wiio bis long career. But in eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression, and iu richness of illustration,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...came first," says Mr. Macaulay, " and remained till the last; the blossoms did not appear till late. In eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression,...richness of illustration, his later writings are far 1 Tattler, No. 267. superior to those of his youth." His earliest Essays have as much truth and cogent... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 pages
...writers to have been planned before he was fifteen, and was undoubtedly planned while he was still young. He observed as vigilantly, meditated as deeply and...later writings are far superior to those of his youth. In this respect the history of his mind bears some resemblance to the history of the mind of Burke.... | |
 | 1904 - 672 pages
...With him the fruit came first and remained till the last ; the blossoms did not appear till late. ... In eloquence, in sweetness and variety of expression,...later writings are far superior to those of his youth. In this respect, the history of his mind bears some resemblance to the history of the mind of Burke.... | |
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