The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

  • Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930.
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[1930]
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Credit: The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of things judging themselves” is “vain above measure”: for every Essence hath its own Idea, and so cometh thereby to its own full conscient life in man: for-sure the idea of Beauty is not Reason’s idea, 840 nor hath Reason the idea of Courage or of Mirth, of Faith or Love or Poetry or of Music’s delight; if Reason as an essence owneth to any idea, let her make good her claim and therewith be content: so be it; and surely Reason’s property will be the idea of Order;—and ifso, I think to find how by the very natur of her own faculty she was deceived to imagin its universal scope; for since all natur is order’d (nor none will deny that ’ tis by Reason alone we are of such order aware), 850 all things must of their ordinance come in her court for judgment; and ’twas thus Pythagoras coud hold number to be the universal essence of things: nay, see the starry atoms in the seed-plot of heaven ' ' stripp’d to their nakedness are nothing but Number ; and see how Mathematick rideth as a queen cheer’d on her royal progress thru’out nature’s realm ; see how physical Science, which is Reason’s trade and high profession, booketh ever and docketeth all things in order and pattern; how Philosophy, 860