 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 - 1886 - 304 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 ptirgatory at least. His manner of life and meditative habits seriously interfere with the arrangement... | |
 | Parker Woodward - 1901 - 132 pages
...this world I hate ye." "Yesterday I took my place in Chancery. . . . 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." — Bacon, Letter to Buckingham, May 8th, 1617. " He had nothing in him of vain glory, but yet kept... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1902 - 334 pages
...eagerly Bacon seized every opportunity to get to his beloved books. We find him writing to Buckingham : " This matter of pomp, which is Heaven to some men, is Hell to me" (May, 1617). It is not an unlikely probability that, having sounded all the depths and shoals of honour—... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1906 - 418 pages
...Learning) 1 605. Keep a mean.... Golden mediocrity. RANDOLPH (Muses Looking Glass i. iv and vi) 1638. This matter of pomp which is Heaven to some men is Hell to me BACON (Letter to BUCKINGHAM) 1617. Greatness, with private men Esteem'da blessing, is to me a curse... | |
 | 1907 - 548 pages
...to Buckingham, describing the affair, he makes light of it — says there was "much ado," and adds: "But this matter of pomp, which is heaven to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least." To crown his prosperity, the first installment of his great philosophic work, the Novum Organum, made... | |
 | 1907 - 474 pages
...to Buckingham, describing the affair, he makes light of it — says there was "much ado," and adds. "But this matter of pomp, which is heaven to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least." To crown his prosperity, the first installment of his great philosophic work, the Novum Organum, made... | |
 | Amelia Defries - 1928 - 212 pages
...himself to petty submission ? Once at least he permits himself to write, and to Buckingham : — " This matter of pomp, which is Heaven to some men, is Hell to me, or Purgatory at least." 1 Israel Levine. Yet had he not put himself there ? Success on the Chart of Life,1 is Comedy, and this... | |
 | John Stubbs - 2007 - 604 pages
...inaugural day of processions and ceremonies, culminating in a feast costing an astronomical £700. 'But this matter of pomp, which is heaven to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least.'18 In the following weeks he developed gout, skimped on his legal duties, and ignored a couple... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1879 - 712 pages
...his seat with great pomp and unusual magnificence; perhaps from prudential reasons, for he says,"This matter of pomp, which is heaven to some men, is hell to me, or purgatory at least." He begins to feel the effect of care on his health; misses a star-chamber day; sits down at the end... | |
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