 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...from a willing mind. OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. 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 th an daubed with cost. Dancing to song is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...discern a busy nature from a willing mind. A HESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations. • But yet, since princes will have...and pleasure. I understand it, that the song be in choir, placed aloft, and accompanied with some broken music, and the ditty fitted to the device. Acting... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...willing mind. ©f JHassfeiS ana €riumt>!)#. JL HESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such...and pleasure. I understand it, that the song be in choir, placed aloft, and accompanied with some broken music, and the ditty fitted to the device. Acting... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...willing mind. XXXVIII. OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations; but yet, since princes will have such...with cost. Dancing to song is -a thing of great state suid pleasure. I understand it that the song be in quire, placed aloft, and accompanied with some broken... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...willing mind. XXXVIII. 01- MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations ; but yet, since princes will have such...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
...contemplatively to buildings, gardens, masques and triumphs, — ' toys to come amongst such serious observations, but yet, since Princes will have such...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...willing mind. XXXVII. OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS, These things are but toys to come amongst aah serious observations ; but yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced »ith elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song, is a thing of great .state and pleasure. I... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubiny wherewith ye have daubed it T Esckiel xiii. Since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elrtrancy, than daubed with cost. Каст. So smooth he daubed his vice with shew of virtue, He lived... | |
 | 1844 - 630 pages
...future paper. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " These tilings are but toys to come among serious observations ; but yet, since princes will have such...should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost." BACON'S ESSAYS. That which is now a national right was once a privilege peculiar to princes and great... | |
 | 1835 - 838 pages
...eminent an authority as that of Lord Bacon, who has devoted an essay to the subject, observing that "since princes will have such things, it is better...should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost." Entering into further Jetails, the illustrious philosopher says, " Let the songs be loud and cheerful,... | |
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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. 
