 | 1868 - 756 pages
...Lucretius by the mouth of the great Lord Bacon, " to stand upon the sea-shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below ;" but nothing in our poor mind can equal the joy of him, who being solitary... | |
 | William Sharp - 1853 - 286 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well . * It 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, and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 318 pages
...possess the independence I wish rather to meet with, than to confer." CHAPTEE XI. It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon...the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed he relief of man's estate. But * nearly and strailly conjoined and united together than adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...The poet saith excellently well, ' It 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, and the adventures of it below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...the sect,6 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 window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures7 thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...heautified 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...pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a hattle, and the adventures thereof helow ; hut no pleasure is comparahle to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently well : " It 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, and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...rest, saith yet excellently 'well, " It 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, and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Edward STORROW - 1856 - 122 pages
...glorious change. "It is a pleasure," says Bacon, " 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, and the adventures thereof, below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of... | |
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It 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 and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... 
