 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...  The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius - Strana 157úprava: - 2007Obmedzený náhľad - O tejto knihe
 | Manual - 1809 - Počet stránok 288
...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 adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - Počet stránok 348
...inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith 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,... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 568
...pleasure," Lord Verulam says, from Lucretius, " 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 adventure thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - Počet stránok 310
...inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - Počet stránok 312
...iuspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - Počet stránok 310
...iuspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - Počet stránok 602
...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 adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is " comparable to the, standing upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - Počet stránok 580
...inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - Počet stránok 548
...inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well, " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships toss'd upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1820 - Počet stránok 200
...saith he, " to stand or walk " upon the shore, and to see a ship tost with tempest " upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window " of a castle, and to see two battles join upon a " plain: but it is a pleasure incomparable for th« " mind of man to be settled,... | |
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