 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 456 pages
...Certainly the Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death, and by their great preparations made it 20 appear more fearful. Better saith he, qui finem vitae...one that is wounded in hot blood, who, for the time, I scarce feels, the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 494 pages
...moving in my mind had evidently been this which follows, from Lord Bacon's " Essay on Death " : — " It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. " agitation of the storm have not wholly subsided ; the legions that encamped in them are drawing off,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...over death; love slights it; honor aspiretli to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoceupateth • it. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other, Ho that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood: who, for the time, scarce... | |
 | New York State Medical Association - Medicine - 1891 - 658 pages
...and vicissitudes of life. In the noble words of Lord Bacon we may say, as applicable to him, — " He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that...and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death; but above all, believe it the sweetest canticle is Nvnc dimittis, when a man hath... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...It is as naturall to die as to bee borne, and to a little Infant, perhaps, the one is as painefull as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is...time scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixt and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death ; but above all, believe it,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
...lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired." — Ant. Cl. v. 2. DEATH— Birth. (See Stage Theatre.) " It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...infant, perhaps the one is as painful as the other." — .Ess. of Death. " I think Nature would do me wrong, if I should be so long in dying as I was in... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1900 - 264 pages
...of long Nineteene Yeares (1632). Page 148, line 16. Lord Bacon conjectures. ' ' Essay on Death : ' It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.'" — De Quincey's Note (ed. 1856). The*text of the London Magazine reads Jeremy Taylor. Page 149, line... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...appear more fearful. Better saith he [Juvenal], qui ßiiem vite extremiim inier muñera fouit natura. s winds. And blown with restless violence round aboir...those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine fixt and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolors of death : but above all believe it,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...made it appear more fearful. Better saith he: " Qui ' finem vita extremum inter munera ponit nature," It is as natural to die, as to be born; and to a little...and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolors of death; but above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc dimittis" ; when a man... | |
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It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind... 
