 ... one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man...  Collectanea: 1st-2d Series - Page 132by Charles Crawford - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 200 pages
...it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis ; when a man hath obtained worthy ends, and expectations. Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished! envy. " Extincttts amabitur taem. * Ill OF UNITY IN RELIGION RELIGION being the chief... | |
 | Edwin Bormann - 1906 - 268 pages
...it, the sweetest Canticle ts Nunc dimit/*5 ; when a Man hath obtained worthy Ends, and Expectations. Death hath this also ; That it openeth' the Gate, to good Fame, and extinguish/A' Enuie. Extinguish'd, he is loved the same. Through the rhymes "upon," "good" and "avert,"... | |
 | 1907 - 320 pages
...Elegy of the first book also anticipates the sentiment which closes Bacon's Essay of Death : — " Death hath this also : that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy." Mr. Reynolds, in his edition of the Essays, quotes the passage from this Elegy:... | |
 | Edgar Truman Brackett - 1908 - 338 pages
...year on the tomb and who have rendered the county great in its standing in the bar of the State. ' ' Death hath this also ; that it openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy. ' ' He had long passed the mark where good fame openeth; was many years beyond any possible envy. In... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...the sweetest Canticle is 55 Nunc dimittis™, when a Man hath obtained worthy Ends and Expectations. Death hath this also, That it openeth the Gate to good Fame, and extinguished Envie. Extinctus amabititr idem". 1 fastidiousness duplicity. * satiety ' I suppose I... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis;0 when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. Extinctus amabitur idem* IV. OF REVENGE Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...Nunc dimittis [Now lettest thou . . . depart]; when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. Extinctus amabitur idem [The same man that was envied while he lived, shall be loved when he is gone]. m OF UNITY... | |
 | United States. 60th Cong. 1st sess., 1907-1908 - 1909 - 106 pages
...hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth divert the troubles of death. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. During the dreadful Sepoy mutiny in India, when the English garrison in Lucknow, with the women and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1909 - 360 pages
...Nunc dimittis [Now lettest thou . . . depart] ; when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also ; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. Exttnctus amabitur idem [The same man that was envied while he lived, shall be loved when he is gone].... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...Nunc dimittis [Now lettest thou . . . depart] ; when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also ; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished! envy. Extinctus amabitur idem [The same man that was envied while he lived, shall be... | |
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