 MY LORD, — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient: one and...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 204by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1895 - 600 pages
...excellent power and earneflnefs. MI ord A A7^^ as Puc^ confidence, as mine own honest, and faithfull ' VV Devotion unto your Service, and your honourable Correspondence...in a Man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I waxe now somewhat ancient; One and thirty yeares, is a great deal of sand, in the Houre-glasse. My... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1896 - 276 pages
...made in a simple good faith which is as far as possible from vain boastfulness. " MY LORD — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax>now somewhat ancient , one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass. My health,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 552 pages
...not absurd. TO MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY From ' Letters and Life,' by James Spedding My Lord: WITH as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honorable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your... | |
 | Parker Woodward - 1902 - 144 pages
...the draft of which appears in the Supplement to Rawley's " Resuscitatio." It begins : " My Lord, with as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. / wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass. My health,... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth OLD AGE " I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass." — Letter to BurgUey (1592). " Her Majesty's being begun in my first years, I would be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 428 pages
...for help i in the furtherance of his ambition,— i "My Lord,— With as much confidence as mine I own honest and faithful devotion unto your service...commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax now somewhat 1 ancient : one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 146 pages
...hour. He conformed to the requirements of popular speech. The drama is not science. Cf. Bacon: "I waif now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-gla^s." — Letter to Burleigh, 1591. Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1913 - 624 pages
...that was finally confirmed by Dryden. WILLIAM MINTO. LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD—With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one-and-thirty is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed... | |
 | Edward George Harman - English literature - 1914 - 630 pages
...not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass." l At the age of thirty-nine he talks about " my last years ; for so I account them, reckoning... | |
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