“ Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last ”
Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon (1597). copy citation
| Author | Francis Bacon |
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| Source | The Essays of Francis Bacon |
| Topic | beauty summer |
| Date | 1597 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm |
Context
“If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher; for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering the youth, as to make up the comeliness. Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.
Of Deformity
DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature;”
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