 An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The...  The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 496by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
..."active Principle" assigned "To every Form of being" in Wordsworth's Excursion that "subsists / In all things, in all natures; in the stars / Of azure...heaven, the unenduring clouds, / In flower and tree" and rock, in "moving waters, and the invisible air. . . ."9 If German metaphysics (and perhaps an older... | |
 | David P. Haney - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 289 pages
...the Being that we are. (4.1262-64) The world outside the mind has a corresponding excursive power: Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond...communicating good, A simple blessing, or with evil mixed. (9.10-12) This poem is an "excursion" both by title and by idea. An excursion, in the tourist sense,... | |
 | R. W. Sharples - Epicureans (Greek philosophy) - 1996 - 172 pages
...being is assigned . . . An active Principle: howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures: in the stars Of azure...stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air ... Spirit that knows no insulated spot, No chasm, no solitude, from link to link It circulates, the... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...active principle alive in all things; In all things, in all natures, in the flowers And in the trees, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters and the invisible air. (see LB 309-10) Not the least appeal of such emotive monism was its connective inclusiveness: 'My object... | |
 | Simon Jarvis - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...active principle alive in all things: In all things, in all natures, in the flowers And in the trees, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks The moving waters, and the invisible air. All beings have their properties which spread Beyond themselves, a power by which they make Some other... | |
 | James Adam - 1981 - 260 pages
...of the Universe : "To every form of Being is assigned An active Principle : ... «... it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure...stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air. Spirit that knows no insulated spot, No chasm, no solitude; from link to link It circulates, the Soul... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1896 - 568 pages
...to the West as to the East, which are indeed but symbols of the universal Love. ..." It subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure...brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and th' invisible air. Spirit that knows no insulated spot, No charm, no solitude; from link to link It... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1866 - 786 pages
...venerable sage, "An active principle: — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In N lY *[ w n Y oo 檵 ! t& l ) X iNK`mcR {po..."S D U q5 dpQ@ <H:*79 lz M9 Pn e CW s C Ux ~ F rocki, The moving waters, and th' invisible air. Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...being is assigned An active principle, hnwc'er removed From sense and observation ; it subsists In n and got upon the bed, and trampled it, saying, "...trample upon the pride of Plato." Plato mildly an and every pebbly SIOM 246 247 That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters and the... | |
 | Norman Lacey - Ethics in literature - 1948 - 144 pages
...Principle; — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures. . . Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond...communicating good, A simple blessing, or with evil mixed. (Bkrx,l1. 1-12) This passage does not read harmoniously. It seems very probable that the words 'with... | |
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