 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1867 - 656 pages
...instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterward : so have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play who have better hands. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which Learning... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...beautiful things in other beings " ; Bacon says of the tuning of instruments, that it is UNIVERSALS. not pleasant to hear, " but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards " ; and so, Falstaff : " I am not only witty in myself, but a cause that wit is in other men." Not... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...judge of his own work, not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant...muses, that they may play that have better hands. FHANCIS BACOIT. PREFACE. WHAT shall we read ? is becoming a serious question. A man can hardly find... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...judge of his own work, not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant...is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards. So havo I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play that have better hands.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...but excel the civil laws in fitness for the government : for the civil law was, " Non hos quffisitum munus in usus ;" it was not made for the countries...sweeter afterwards. So have I been content to tune the instrument of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands. And surely, when I set before me... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...pause, looking back into that I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me, si nuuqitam fa/lit imago, as far as a man can judge of his own work,...sweeter afterwards. So have I been content to tune the instrument of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands. And surely, when I set before me... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...this writing seemeth to me not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant...muses, that they may play that have better hands." Most of Bacon's works were written in Latin, the curious idea existing that that language was to supersede... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1887 - 418 pages
...judge of his own work, not much better than the noise, or sound, which musicians make, while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant...the muses, that they may play that have better hands : " — "His tongue is now a stringless instrument." — Rich. 11. It is true, the author of this play,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instrument* ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music i* sweeter afterwards. So have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1889 - 690 pages
...it to perfect harmony, that hereafter the strings may be touched by a better hand or a better quill. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning seems to have now made her *hird visitation to men ; and when at the same time I attentively behold... | |
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I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me, si nunquam fallit imago, as far as a man can judge of his own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are in tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant... 
