 The ancients, who often paid more attention to received opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed that fern bore no seed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant produced seed which was invisible. Hence, from an extraordinary mode of reasoning,...  A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare - Page 178by Alexander Dyce - 1902 - 570 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...strong holds to fly to for protection and defence against the laws. J we have the receipt of fern-seed,] The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...an extraordinary mode of reasoning, founded on the fantastick doctrine of signatures, they concluded that they who possessed the secret of wearing this... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...often paid more attention toj-eceived opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed tti&tfern bore no seed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant...wearing this seed about them would become invisible. This superstition the good sense of the poet taught him to ridicule. It was also supposed to seed in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...11liny, book xxvii. ch. ix.: "OfJ'erne be two kinds, and they beare neither floure nor seede." STEEVENS. The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed that_/er» bore no seed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant produced seed which was invisible.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...strong holds to fly to for protection and defence against the laws. * we have the receipt of fern-seed,] The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...an extraordinary mode of reasoning, founded on the fantastick doctrine of signatures, they concluded that they who possessed the secret of wearing this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...strong holds to fly to for protection and defence against the laws. * we have the receipt of fern-seed,] The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed that/<?nt bore no seed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant produced seed which was invisible. Hence,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 458 pages
...security, our powerful associates being as our walls of defence. 1 we have the receipt of fern-seed,] The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed that/ern bore no seed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant produced seed which was invisible. Hence,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Common fallacies - 1837 - 414 pages
...an extraordinary mode of reasoning, founded on the aforesaid doctrine of signatures, it was thought that they who possessed the secret of wearing this seed about them would become invisible. Fern-seed was said to possess great magical powers, but it must be gathered on Midsummer's Eve. One... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 506 pages
...strong holds to fly to for protection and defence against the laws. ' we have the receipt of fern-seed,] The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...opinions than to the evidence of their senses, believed that/mi bore no teed. Our ancestors imagined that this plant produced seed which was invisible. Hence... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...Translation of Pliny, book xxvii. ch. 9 : "Of ferae be two kinds, and they beare neither floure nor seed." The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...wearing this seed about them would become invisible. This superstition Shakespeare's good sense taught him to ridicule. It was also supposed to seed in... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1853 - 580 pages
...Translation of Pliny, book xxvii. ch. 9 : "Of ferae be two kinds, and they beare neither floure nor seed." The ancients, who often paid more attention to received...secret of wearing this seed about them would become in 1 [" Gather fearne-seed on Midsomer Eve, and weare it about the continually. Also on Midsomer Day... | |
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