 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. No receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend, to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. The second fruit of friendship, is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt 9 openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may...the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift 10 or confession. for princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...liver, steel to open the spleen, 35 flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain : but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend ; to...oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. 40 It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt9 openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may...lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift10 or confession. It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...spleen, flour of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but u true friend to •whom you may impart griefs, joys,...lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil ehvift or ponfession."--Zi/j. Reynolds. "Friendship closes its eyes, rather than see the moon eclipst;... | |
 | 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
...the liver, steel 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...the heart which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. LORD liACON: Essay XXVIII., Of Friendship. man's. Venerable to 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... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...30 liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith - 1880 - 512 pages
...and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. ... No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to...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... | |
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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. 
