 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...then of tragedies ; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury. You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy...You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius," the Decemvir and lawgiver ; whereof the former... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...then of tragedies: but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, cither ancient or recent,) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love; which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury. You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remainetb, * " Envy keeps no holidays." t See St. Matthew xiii. 85. either ancient or recent), there... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy...persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recer' " VOL. ,-7 193 there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love, which... | |
 | Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 pages
...like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons, there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love ; which shows that great spirit and great business do keep out this mad passion. Neither doth this weakness appear to others... | |
 | Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 pages
...like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons, there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love ; which shows that great spirit and great business do keep out this mad passion. Neither doth this weakness appear to others... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - 1916 - 328 pages
...Florizel and Perdita in The Winter's Tale, or Ferdinand and Miranda in The Tempest. Bacon writes thus: — You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy...and great business do keep out this weak passion. . . . It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value... | |
 | Elinor Glyn - 1916 - 418 pages
...have no emotions. I must follow what Bacon asserts about great spirits," and she quoted softly : " 'There is not one that hath been transported to the...and great business do keep out this weak passion.' " Yes, she would keep out this weak passion ! She had tasted its joys, and that memory must last her... | |
 | George Frank Lydston - 1917 - 344 pages
...man, not at all;" and with the still-wiser Englishman, who thus writes: "You may observe that among the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth,...one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love—-which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion. . . . By how... | |
 | Jesse Turner - 1917 - 60 pages
...under still more formidable disabilities. For does not all the world now know that he has written? "Amongst all the great and worthy persons whereof...and great business do keep out this weak passion. There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved,... | |
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You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out... 
