 You have been so long out of trite learning, that 'tis hard to finde a subject proper for you; and if you have met with a Sheet upon this, we have missed our intention. In this multiplicity of writing, bye and barren Themes are best fitted for invention;...  The Garden of Cyrus.. - Page ivby Sir Thomas Browne - 1736 - 40 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1835 - 526 pages
...multiplicity of writing, by and barren themes are best fitted for invention ; subjects so often discoursed confine the imagination, and fix our conceptions unto the notions of fore-writers. Besides, such discourses allow excursions, and venially admit of collateral truths, though at some... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...multiplicity of writing, by and barren themes are best fitted for invention ; subjects so often discoursed confine the imagination, and fix our conceptions unto the notions of forewriters. Besides, such discourses allow excursions, and venially admit of collateral truths, though at some... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1896 - 252 pages
...multiplicity of writing, by and barren themes are best fitted for invention; subjects so often discoursed confine the imagination, and fix our conceptions unto the notions of forewriters. Beside, such discourses allow excursions, and venially admit of collateral truths, though at some distance... | |
 | Claire Preston - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 276 pages
...the one which establishes the quincunx as an uncontainable signature: 'subjects so often discoursed confine the imagination, and fix our conceptions unto the notions of fore-writers' (GC. Bacon, 175), and so this treatise, he announces, will occupy an empty plot, one so barren that... | |
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