 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...busy nature from a willing mind. OF X anB €riump&0, THESE things are but toys to come amongst 8uch serious observations; but yet, since princes will...should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it that the song be in quire,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...than upon bravery ; and let them discern a busynature from a willing mind. OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious...things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy th an daubed with cost. Dancing to song is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...bravery ; and let them discern a busy nature from a willing mind. ©f JHassfeiS ana €riumt>!)#. JL HESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious...should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song, is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it, that the song be in choir,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...upon conscience, than upon bravery ; and let them discern a busy nature from a willing mind. A HESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious...should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song, is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it, that the song be in choir,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...bravery ; and let them discern a busy nature from a willing mind. XXXVIII. OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. THESE things are but toys to come amongst, such serious...should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it that the song be in quire,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...upon bravery : and let them discern a busy nature from a willing mind. XXXVII. OF MASKS AND TRIUMPHS. THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious...should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song, is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it, that the song be in quire,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...bravery; and let them discern a busy nature from a willing mind. XXXVIII. OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious...should be graced with elegancy, than ,daubed with cost. Dancing to song is -a thing of great state suid pleasure. I understand it that the song be in quire,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...bravery ; and let them discern a busy nature from a willing mind. XXXVIII. 01- MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious...is better they should be graced with elegancy, than danbed with cost. Dancing to song is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it that the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...sensuous glow of colour, as he turned contemplatively to buildings, gardens, masques and triumphs, — ' toys to come amongst such serious observations, but...should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.' It was under such an environment as this, having for its centre ' London and the Queen,' that the great... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...bravery ; and let them discern a busy nature, from a willing mind. XXXVII. OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. These things are but toys to come amongst such serious...should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song, is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it that the song be in quire,... | |
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THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost. 
