For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated, as a bride, and solemnly bedded ; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and women, put his leg,... The works of Francis Bacon - Page 65by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 pages
...bedded ; and after she was laid there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and women, put his leg, stripped naked to the knee, between the espousal sheets " (History of Henry VII., ad med.). But this... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 606 pages
...bedded; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...knee, between the espousal sheets; to the end that the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge." — ED.] /. 15. lines... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 610 pages
...bedded; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...knee, between the espousal sheets; to the end that the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge." — ED.] /. 15. lines... | |
| Nina Cust - Europe - 1909 - 612 pages
...transferred his attention to his wars. It was his characteristic, declares Bacon, ' to leave things when they were almost come to perfection, and to end them by imagination ' ; and, like a bad archer, he had again not drawn his arrow up to the head. In this case the omission... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1913 - 1092 pages
...bedded ; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador, with letters of procuration, and eart as a millstone, set my face as a flint, Cheat...are ashes and dust. Peace sitting under her olive, a the ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge." — Ев.) P. 166,... | |
| Henry Latimer Seaver - Castile (Kingdom). - 1928 - 480 pages
...characterized Maximilian, as brilliantly and more 'pressly,' in his Henry VII (Spedding, VI. 101): 'Maximilian, whose property was to leave things then...come to perfection, and to end them by imagination, like ill archers that draw not their arrows up to the head.' 1 The daughter, like the father, lives... | |
| Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 284 pages
...and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, 232 and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...property was to leave things then when they were almost comen to perfection, and to end them by imagination; like ill archers, that draw not their arrows up... | |
| Francis Bacon - History - 1998 - 340 pages
...bedded,12 and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration,13 and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...leg (stript naked to the knee) between the espousal sheets,14 to the end that that ceremony might be thought to amount to a consummation and actual knowledge.15... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...bedded ; and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages, men and...things then when they were almost come to perfection, 2F and to end them by imagination ; like ill archers, that draw not their arrows up to the head ; and... | |
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