England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle , to his father's chair, Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Pagina 349door Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pagina’s
...a very pretty specimen of " old Ben's flattery of kings," and " hatred of all merit but his own i" Whose even thread the fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. 'Tis a brave cause of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness, kept thine own. Give me a... | |
| Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 434 pagina’s
...few rugged but expressive lines of congratulation to — " England's high chancellor, the destin'd heir In his soft cradle to his father's chair, Whose...full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool." His seat of Gorhambury, also tbe abode of his father, and the scene of his youthful pleasures and studies,... | |
| Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 434 pagina’s
...few rugged but expressive lines of congratulation to — " England's high chancellor, the destin'd heir In his soft cradle to his father's chair, Whose even thread the fates spin round and full Ont of their choicest and their whitest wool." His seat of Gorhambury, also the abode of his father,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pagina’s
...was, that since is he, Now with a title more to the degree ; England's High Chancellor, the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair. Whose...full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. Tis a brave cajise of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness kept thine own. Give me a... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pagina’s
...was, that since is he, Now with a title more to the degree ; England's High Chancellor, the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair. Whose...full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. Tis a brave cause of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness kept thine own. Give me a deep... | |
| Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pagina’s
...was, that since is he, Now with a- title more to the degree ; England's High Chancellor, the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair. Whose...spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their richest wool. 'Tis a brave cause of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness kept thine own.... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1836 - 340 pagina’s
...English weal. What then his father was, that since is he ; Now with a title more to the degree,— England's high chancellor : the destined heir, In...full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool 'Tis a brave cause of joy ; let it be known : For 't were a narrow gladness, kept thine own. Give me... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pagina’s
...has commemorated in a set of verses, in which he speaks of the exalted subject of his muse as one " Whose even thread the fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool." This was indeed the bright noon of Bacon's prosperity, when every thing seemed to conspire to lift... | |
| 1837 - 608 pagina’s
...disaster, entering on a green old age, in the enjoyment of riches, power, high honours, undiminished mental activity, and vast literary reputation, made...Chancellor, the destined heir, •: In his soft cradle, lo his father's chair, Whose even thread the fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their... | |
| 1838 - 870 pagina’s
...disaster, entering on a green old age, in the enjoyment of riches, power, high honors, undiminished mental activity, and vast literary reputation, made...impression on the poet, if we may judge from those well known lines— " England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his эоП cradle, to his father's... | |
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