 | Life - 1879 - 168 pages
...quotes a proverb of the ancients, — "A friend is another self." "No receipt," he adds, "opens tho heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs,...and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it." It is not necessary to point out the importance of friendship to our noontide readers. They have long... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart...in a kind of civil shrift, or confession. It is a strangsi thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith - 1880 - 512 pages
...gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. ... No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift, or confession. . . . Friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. ss 4. It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...passions of all kinds do cause and induce. LORD liACON: Essay XXVIII., Of Friendship. No receipt openeth o me is the hard hand, — crooked, coarse, — wherein, LORD BACON : Essay XXVIII., Of Friendship. This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two... | |
 | Kentucky State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 296 pages
...of the beasts and not from humanity." On the other hand the same author said : "No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart...and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, etc." . . . "This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart...strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship whereof we speak: so great, as they purchase it many... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1976 - 328 pages
...speaking to a friend (Macbeth, IV.iii. 209-11). Bacon, Of Friendship, . . . 'but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs. . .'. 220-7 The . . . expedition. Is this abrupt change to prose- to emphasize the return to affairs... | |
 | Joel D. Block - 1980 - 244 pages
...to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain, but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart...lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shift or confession. FRANCIS BACON The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Biology - 1907 - 740 pages
...and character secured the devoted attachment of a wider circle. There are many to whom he was that " true friend to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever Heth upon the heart to oppress it," many to whom the memory of his intimate friendship will remain... | |
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... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. 
