| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pàgines
...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... | |
| mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 318 pàgines
...confer." CHAPTEE XI. It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost 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... | |
| British history - 1855 - 482 pàgines
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pàgines
...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... | |
| Edward STORROW - 1856 - 122 pàgines
...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... | |
| William Russell - 1856 - 240 pàgines
...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... | |
| Manchester papers - 1856 - 346 pàgines
...ALBANY FONBLANQUE. " 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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pàgines
...yet excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in 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... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pàgines
...excellently well, ' It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a 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... | |
| Manchester papers - 1856 - 344 pàgines
...(itosional VOL. I. " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea — n 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... | |
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