 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...friendship is, ;ill offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise ality of nu@ | are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise be a luxury to die in hemp. "So true it is, what...Numerator OK by lessening your Denominator. Kay, soinc'times brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful... | |
 | Friendship - 1911 - 120 pages
...yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. — Thoreau. A MAN can scarce allege his own merits with modesty,...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own. — Bacon. COME, friend, my fire is burning bright, A fire's no longer... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 438 pages
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 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - Poetry - 1915 - 652 pages
...ourselves, we publish them." In the Essay of Friendship Bacon, like Shakespeare, condemns selfpraise : " A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them." Sonnet sixty-two completely clinches my argument, for there Shakespeare confesses that it is his own... | |
 | Robert Purvis - Bridges - 1913 - 272 pages
...Arrol's modesty, simplicity, and total want of affectation. Bacon also says : " How many things are K there which a man cannot with any face or comeliness...his own merits with modesty, much less extol them. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own." Now the writer... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - Elocution - 1915 - 328 pages
...his battles are fought, and his march it is ended ; The sound of the bagpipes shall wake him no more. A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty,...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. A much more frequent use of the colon is in denoting enumeration : Many... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - Elocution - 1915 - 352 pages
...his battles are fought, and his march it is ended; The sound of the bagpipes shall wake him no more. A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty,...these things are graceful in, a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. A much more frequent use of the colon is in denoting enumeration: Many... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise, Or plaintive...of Scotia's holy lays. Compar'd with these, Italian are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 576 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put... | |
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How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But... 
