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" I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is, but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. "
The History of Persia: From the Most Early Period to the Present Time ... - Page 172
by John Malcolm - 1829
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Love in Epigram: Sapient Guesses and Foolish Conceits about the Tender Passion

Love - 1898 - 264 pages
...men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends. I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is but...; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which if it be not...
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The Life and Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Alfred, lord Tennyson, a memoir ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 390 pages
...which Bacon speaks of Love would be enough to prove that he was not Shakespeare. ' I know not how, but martial men are given to Love. I think it is but as...for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.' How could a man with such an idea of Love write Romeo and Juliet ? " Speaking of Walt Whitman, he said...
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The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, & Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 pages
...men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends. I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is but...; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which if it be not...
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The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon, Lo. Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 374 pages
...men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends. I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is but...; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 1

Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends. I know not how, but martial men are given to love; I think it is but as...wine, for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not...
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The Essayes Or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 pages
...men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends. I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is but...; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not...
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The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 376 pages
...men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends. I know not how, but martial men are given to love : I think it is but...; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...no wayes be true, to their owne Ends. I know not how, but Martiall Men, are given to Love : I thinke it is, but as they are given to Wine ; For Perils, commonly aske, to be paid in Pleasures. There is in Mans Nature, a secret Inclination, and Motion, towards love...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 1

David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be true to their own ends. I know not how, but martial men are given to love; I think it is but as...wine, for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures. There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 9

Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...the town Ben armed for the love of her. " I know not how," says Bacon in his " Essay on Love," " but martial men are given to love; I think it is but as...given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasure." 67. Paris of Troy, of whom Spenser says, " Faerie Queene," m. ix. 34: Most famous Worthy...
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