 | George Herbert West - Spain - 1867 - 52 pages
...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 on the vantage-ground... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...excellently well : ' H 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 adventuret thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage... | |
 | George Herbert West - 1867 - 60 pages
...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 on the vantage-ground... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...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 adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantageground... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...yet excellently well : // 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...see a Battaile, and the Adventures thereof, below: But no- pleasure is comparable, to the standing, upon the vantage ground of Truth : (A hill not to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...yet excellently well, " It is a pleasured 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 (events, vicissitudes) thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...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-ground... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...his Essay on Truth : " 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...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 44 see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon... | |
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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 of... 
