 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...— Growing Old. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, e; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too great for fame. g. BACON— Essay XLII. Of YouthandAge. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,... | |
 | German literature - 1913 - 582 pages
...sit", die Reynolds zum Vergleiche mit den folgenden Sätzen Bacons in Ess. XLII (p. 300) heranzieht: „Certainly it is good to compound employments of...men may be learners while men in age are actors;" etc. Plutarch sagt 1. cp 790 D: „Trjv de noKitüav äei roi-g ytQOVcag aftoßütäovaav avani^n'ka.a&ai... | |
 | Max freiherr von Waldberg - German literature - 1913 - 374 pages
...sit", die Reynolds zum Vergleiche mit den folgenden Sätzen Bacons in Ess. XLII (p. 300) heranzieht: .„Certainly it is good to compound employments of...men may be learners while men in age are actors;" etc. Plutarch sagt 1. с. p. 790 D: „Ti¡v dé TtoKiTeíav au TOVÇ ytQOvras anoßakKovaav àvani^n^aad-ai... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 678 pages
...from Bacon : — "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 1 His works abound in illustrations, analogies, and striking imagery ; but, unlike the great Elizabethan... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 672 pages
...from Bacon: — "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 1 His works abound in illustrations, analogies, and striking imagery; but, unlike the great Elizabethan... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a medioc- [sc rity Q : favor and popularity youth. But for the moral part, [60 perhaps youth will have the pre-eminence, as... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...the full period, but content themselves with a medioc- [50 rity of success. Certainly, it is good u> nkind, by the enchantment of favor and popularity youth. But for the moral part, [60 perhaps youth will have the pre-eminence, as... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, 40 Steals vein by vein and pulse by pulse away; Yet...then he talks of life, and how again He feels his s cither age may correct the defects of both ; and good for succession, that young men may be learners,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home 35 to the full period, but content themselves with a...are actors ; and, lastly, good for extern accidents, 40 because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth. But for the moral part, perhaps... | |
 | Edith Helen Sichel - 1918 - 250 pages
...Men of age," says Bacon, " object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." When we come to feelings, there is the same sort of risk. Indifference often has a family look of Philosophy,... | |
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. 
