England's high Chancellor, the destined heir In his soft cradle to his father's chair ; Whose even thread the fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. Ben Jonson - Page 148by John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...a very pretty specimen of " old Ben's flattery of kings," and " hatred of all merit but his own i" Whose even thread the fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. 'Tis a brave cause of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness, kept thine own. Give... | |
| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...few rugged but expressive lines of congratulation to — " England's high chancellor, the destin'd heir In his soft cradle to his father's chair, Whose...round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool." His seat of Gorhambury, also tbe abode of his father, and the scene of his youthful pleasures... | |
| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...few rugged but expressive lines of congratulation to — " England's high chancellor, the destin'd heir In his soft cradle to his father's chair, Whose even thread the fates spin round and full Ont of their choicest and their whitest wool." His seat of Gorhambury, also the abode of his father,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...was, that since is he, Now with a title more to the degree ; England's High Chancellor, the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair. Whose...round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. Tis a brave cajise of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness kept thine own. Give... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...was, that since is he, Now with a title more to the degree ; England's High Chancellor, the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair. Whose...round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool. Tis a brave cause of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness kept thine own. Give... | |
| Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...was, that since is he, Now with a- title more to the degree ; England's High Chancellor, the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair. Whose...spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their richest wool. 'Tis a brave cause of joy, let it be known, For 'twere a narrow gladness kept thine own.... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - Anecdotes - 1836 - 340 pages
...father was, that since is he ; Now with a title more to the degree,— England's high chancellor : the destined heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's...and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool 'Tis a brave cause of joy ; let it be known : For 't were a narrow gladness, kept thine own. Give... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...has commemorated in a set of verses, in which he speaks of the exalted subject of his muse as one " Whose even thread the fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool." This was indeed the bright noon of Bacon's prosperity, when every thing seemed to conspire to... | |
| 1837 - 608 pages
...those well-known lines — 'England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, •: In his soft cradle, lo his father's chair, Whose even thread the fates spin...round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.' In the intervals of rest which Bacon's political and judicial functions afforded, he was in... | |
| 1838 - 822 pages
...from those well known lines — " England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle, lo his father's chair, Whose even thread the fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest end their whitest wool." In the intervals of rest which Bacon's political and judicial functions afforded,... | |
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