 I have been like a piece of stuff bespoken in the shop ; and if her Majesty will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth...  The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Pagina 15door Francis Bacon - 1838Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 pagina’s
...like a child following a bird which, when he is nearest, flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum,...weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends." Lady Anne laments that Francis " with inward secret grief hindereth his health. Everybody saith he... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 824 pagina’s
...like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum,...trouble you with this idle letter, being but justa et moderata querimonia : for indeed I do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off. And thus again... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 402 pagina’s
...like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so 'in infinitum,...leave to trouble you with this idle letter, being but junta et moderata querimonia : for indeed I do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off. And... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 388 pagina’s
...like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum,...trouble you with this idle letter ; being but justa et moderata querimonia ; for indeed I do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off. And thus again... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 260 pagina’s
...nearest flicth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitnm, I am weary of it; as also of wearying my good friends:...leave to trouble you with this idle letter; being but juste et moderate giterimenia ; for indeed I do confess, primus amor will not easily bo cast off. And... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 440 pagina’s
...like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum,...wearying my good friends : of whom, nevertheless, 1 hope in one course or other gratefully to deserve. And so, not forgetting your business, I leave... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1896 - 276 pagina’s
...nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in injinitum, I am weary of it ; as also of wearying my good friends...trouble you with this idle letter ; being but justa et moderata guerimonia ; for indeed I do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off. And thus again... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1900 - 318 pagina’s
...a child following a bird ; which, when he is nearest flieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum — I am weary of it." — Letter to Greville. " They follow him . . . with no less confidence Than boys pursuing summer butterfles.''... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1902 - 236 pagina’s
...like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum,...leave to trouble you with this idle letter ; being but juata et moderata querimonia ; for indeed I do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off. And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1922 - 300 pagina’s
...a child following a bird, which when he is nearest, flieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum, I am weary of it." 62. over and over he comes] not apparently meaning repeated falls, but one, of the head over heels... | |
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