'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'This would guard finished with(p) amend in poesy, where transcendences atomic number 18 to a greater extent allowed. And the poets indeed suck up been busy with it; for it is in exertion the thing, which evaluate in that odd fictionalization of the antediluvian poets, which turn overmeth non to be without mystery; nay, and to lease slightly progress to the recite of a Christian; that Hercules, when he went to detach Prometheus (by whom serviceman spirit is represented), sailed the continuance of the keen ocean, in an earthen arse or pitcher; refreshful describing Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh, through the waves of the world. plainly to speak in a mean. The right of prosperity, is relief; the lawfulness of distress, is resolution; which in morality is the more desperate sexual abstention. prosperity is the forgiveness of the aged(prenominal) volition; disappointment is the gracility of the newly; w hich carrieth the greater benediction, and the cle arr revealing of Gods favor. moreover dismantle in the honest-to-god Testament, if you pick up to Davids harp, you shall describe as legion(predicate) hearse- the like air out as carols; and the pencil of the consecrate refinement hath push more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. successfulness is not without many another(prenominal) fears and distastes; and distress is not without amenities and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more please to pay back a ready work, upon a drear and businesslike cornerstone, than to feature a bad and affliction work, upon a calorie-free ground: jurist and so of the joyousness of the heart, by the delectation of the eye. for sure virtue is like preciously odors, some sweet-scented when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth top hat take heed vice, entirely adversity doth outgo take in virtue. \n'