 It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and as...  The book of the Axeby George Philip R. Pulman - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Jefferys Taylor - 1822 - 140 pages
...Holiday, jEiop in Rhyme, and Kalph Richards, the Miter, " It is good to vary and intermingle i peech of the present occasion with arguments; tales with...with telling of opinions; and jest with earnest." Bacmft Estays. •Milttlj LONDON ; PRINTED FOR BJ HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHUBCH-YAKD. 1822. IT... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reason, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest : for it is a dull thing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a • man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade any thing too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade any thing too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it ; namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade any thing too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it ; namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...and jest with earnest : for it is a dull thing to ure, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too for. As for jest, there be certain things which ought... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, talcs with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest : for it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...to moderate, and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary, and intermingle speech...a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech...is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now, to jade anything too far. As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely,... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...that charming book. " It is good, in Discourse, and Speech of Conversation," saith the philosopher, " to vary and intermingle Speech of the present Occasion...a dull Thing to Tire, and as we say now, to Jade, anything too far." Milverton's essays are never allowed to tire, or jade, anything too far : at the... | |
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