 The poet that beautified the sect that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well : // is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle...  The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts - Page 31edited by - 1916 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasured stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of...a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures (events, vicissitudes) thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : // is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the Sea: A pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle, and to see a Battaile, and the Adventures thereof, below: But no- pleasure is comparable, to the standing, upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...Poet, that beautified the Seft, that was otherwise mferiour to the rest, saith yet excellently well: It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the Sea: A pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle, and to see a Battaile, and the Adventures... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...that beautified the sect,' that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, 'It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures7... | |
 | 1869 - 100 pages
...mony lengthen'd sage advices The husband frae the wife despises" — And, as my lord Bacon saith, " No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth," I am compelled to acknowledge that Tarn seems to have disregarded these gentle warnings, and delicate... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...poet that beautified the sect that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well : It is a pleasure ' to stand upon the shore, and to see...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to 44 see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 pages
...that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, '' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...tempests of life. So, selfishly wrote that man whom Francis Bacon quotes in his Essay on Truth : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventures... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - 1871 - 678 pages
...themselves impregnable. We really enjoyed the fight, it being, as Lucretius observes, " a great satisfaction to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof, in the vale below." We felt all along that all that was necessary was for them to take the offensive,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1925 - 516 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : It is a pleasure to stand vpmi the shore, and to see ships tost vpon the Sea : A pleasure to stand in the window of a Castle, and to see a Battaile, and the Aduentures thereof, below: But no pleasure is comparable, to the standing, vpon the... | |
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