 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - 1920 - 246 pages
...Cowley in his delicious Ode: "Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren Wilderness he past; Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promised land ; And from the Mountain Top of his exalted Wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But Life did never to one Man... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878 - 846 pages
...deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain- top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it." Kuno Fischer says that Bacon... | |
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Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren wilderness he past; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. 
