 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which* when he is nearest...before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinituin ; I am weary of it," as also of Wearying mjr good friends: of whom, nevertheless,;-I hope... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 pages
...will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will, be more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which, when he is nearest...before, and then the child after it again, and so in n;ii nit ion ; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends : of whom, nevertheless, I hope... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 pages
...more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest Hieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infmitum; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends : of whom nevertheless, I hope in one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...pursuit ; of this, and of the difficulties of his situation, he bitterly complained. " To be," he said, " like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest...little before, and then the child after it again. I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends." («) On the 5th of November, 1596, (o) Mr.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which, when he is nearest...before, and then the child after it again, and so in injinitum ; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends : of whom, nevertheless, I hope in... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...pursuit ; of this, and of the difficulties of his situation, he bitterly complained. " To be," he said, " like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest...little before, and then the child after it again. I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends. "(») On the 5th of November, 1596, (o) Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...and if her majesty will not take me, it may be, the selling by parcels may be more gainful. For to be like a child following a bird, which, when he is nearest,...it again, and so in infinitum, I am weary of it.'* Disappointed, and, as he thought, disgraced, f by being thus neglected, he im* Bacon's Works, vol.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 864 pages
...will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. For to be, as I told von, Eke Gorhambury, this 16th of July, 1603. alderman of London. She survived her husband «nl then the child after it again, and so in infinitum; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1862 - 914 pages
...own peculiar way, most forcibly described the pertinacity of his suit. " For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which, when he is nearest...before, and then the child after it again, and so ininftnitum,— I am weary of it, and also of wearying my good friends." Having failed of obtaining... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 pages
...will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest...weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends." He was at last thrown into a state of mind still more painful than suspense, by the overwhelming intelligence... | |
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I have been like a piece of stuff bespoken in the shop ; and if her Majesty will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth... 
