 They do best, who, if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarter : and sever it wholly from their serious affairs, and actions of life : for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men that they can no ways be...  A Dictionary of English Etymology - Page 502by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson - 1872 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Authors, English - 1909 - 368 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more frequent, and therefore, show it to be the child of folly. They do best, who, if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarter; and sever it whoHy from their serious affairs and actions of life: for if it check once with business, it troubleth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly. They do best, who if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarter; 8 and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life; for if it check" once with business,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1909 - 360 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly. They do best, who if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarter;2 and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life; for if it check" once... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly. They do best who, if they cannot but admit love, yet...quarter, and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life; for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men... | |
 | H. Crouch Batchelor - 1912 - 156 pages
...esteemeth too much of amorous affections quitteth both riches and wisdom." " Love is the child of folly. They do best who, if they cannot but admit love, yet...quarter, and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life." Bacon is here writing not as an advocate, but purely as an observer and analyst.... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - 1916 - 332 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly.6 They do best, who if they cannot but admit love, yet...quarter; and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life; for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly. They do best who, if they cannot but admit love, yet...quarter, and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life ; for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly. ut the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that...we spake of before. But howsoever these things ar and actions of life; for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly. ion of apologizing and paying a fine. He answers, with fi^ed stern pride: "If I cannot retnTri with then- serious affairs and actions of life; for if it check once with business, it troubleth men's fortunes,... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1925 - 662 pages
...that is only because, like Bacon, he believes that "they do best, who if they cannot but admit love, make it keep quarter, and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life " ; it is not because he underrates her enchantment or would advise Antony to forego... | |
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