 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 387 pages
...description of Richard III, though it may have been provoked more directly by Robert Cecil. Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature...affection," and so they have their revenge of nature. Certain there is a consent between the body and the mind, and where nature erreth in the one, she ventureth... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 387 pages
...the Scripture saith, "Void of natural affection," and so they have their revenge of nature. Certain there is a consent between the body and the mind,...nature erreth in the one, she ventureth in the other. . . . Whosoever has anything fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - Social Science - 1991 - 196 pages
...but outward virtue" (1864: Vol. 9, 156). Conversely, in his essay on deformity, he states: "Deformed persons are commonly even with nature, for as nature...affection; and so they have their revenge of nature" (1985: 191-2; Bacon's emphasis). The Lord Chancellor, and the most distinguished essayist of the early... | |
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DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature. 
