 Yesterday I took my place in chancery, which I hold only for the king's grace and favour, and your constant friendship. There was much ado, and a great deal of world ; but this matter of pomp, which is heaven to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at...  Letters - Page 94by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 524 pages
...I hold only from the King's grace and favour, and your friendship.* There was much ado, and a great deal of world. But this matter of pomp, which is heaven...approved, and that I had so much interest in men's 1 Gibson Papers, vol. viii. f. 63. A fair copy, but in a tired hand. Compared with Stephens's copy... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...antique fables, nor these fairy toys." Mid. Xight'i Dream, Act V. Sc. L " There was much ado and a great deal of world ; but this matter of pomp, which is...some men, is hell to me, or purgatory, at least." — Letter to Buck., 1617. — "I am in purgatory." — Letter. — " all the vain pomp and outward... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 548 pages
...hold only from the King's grace and favour, and your friendship. 4 There was much ado, and a great deal of world. But this matter of pomp, which is heaven...approved, and that I had so much interest in men's 1 Gibson Papers, vol. viii. f. 63. A fair copy, but in a tired hand. Compored with Stephens's copy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 524 pages
...hold only from the King's grace and favour, and your friendship.4' There was much ado, and a great deal of world. But this matter of pomp, which is heaven...approved, and that I had so much interest in men's i Gibson Papers, vol. viii. f. 63. A fair copy, but in a tired hand. Compared with Stephens's copy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 550 pages
...I hold only from the King's grace and favour, and your friendship.* There was much ado, and a great deal of world. But this matter of pomp, which is heaven...me, or purgatory at least. It is true I was glad to sec that the King's choice was BO generally approved, and that I had so much interest in men's 1 Gibson... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...when he rides to court as Lord Chancellor, with three hundred gallants attending him, he writes that this matter of ' pomp\ which is heaven to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least. His manner of life and meditative habits seriously interfere with the arrangement of his household,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 pages
...writing to Buckingham the account of this very clay, declares : — " There was much ado and a great deal of world. But this matter of pomp, which is heaven...to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least." So it remains even to the last. When his public career is closed in disgrace, and he pours forth his... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 736 pages
...that the King's choice was so generally approved, and that I had so much interest in men's good wills and good opinions, because it maketh me the fitter...do my master service and my friend also. " After I w ' as set in Chancery, I published his Majesty's charge which he gave me when he gave me the seal,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...when he rides to court as Lord Chancellor, with three hundred gallants attending him, he writes that this matter of pomp, which is heaven to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least. His manner of life and meditative habits seriously interfere with the arrangement of his household,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...which I hold only from the King's grace and favour, and your friendship. There was much ado and a great deal of world. But this matter of pomp, which is heaven...to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least." We cannot here forget what the writer tells us elsewhere : " You shall observe that the more deep and... | |
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