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... mean- time students of Elizabethan literature ought to be grate- ful to the author for having raised the question . Again , Bacon has thought it worth while to enter ( entry 1189 ) the phrase ' Good - morrow . ' What does this mean ? It ...
... mean- time students of Elizabethan literature ought to be grate- ful to the author for having raised the question . Again , Bacon has thought it worth while to enter ( entry 1189 ) the phrase ' Good - morrow . ' What does this mean ? It ...
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... means without interest . It is quite worth while to know what phrases from the Vulgate , Virgil , Ovid , Seneca , and Erasmus were thought worthy by Francis Bacon of inser- tion in his commonplace book . Readers will find that he never ...
... means without interest . It is quite worth while to know what phrases from the Vulgate , Virgil , Ovid , Seneca , and Erasmus were thought worthy by Francis Bacon of inser- tion in his commonplace book . Readers will find that he never ...
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... Means to the End - Meeting or Avoiding Labour- Fruition-- Acquisition 123. ' Col. G. and E .'- Of Praise - Qualities - Virtues -- Race 123b . Col. G. and E .'- Latin sentences - Of the Bent of Nature-- Ignoble Minds - The Greater ...
... Means to the End - Meeting or Avoiding Labour- Fruition-- Acquisition 123. ' Col. G. and E .'- Of Praise - Qualities - Virtues -- Race 123b . Col. G. and E .'- Latin sentences - Of the Bent of Nature-- Ignoble Minds - The Greater ...
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... means probable , nor is it intended to convey the impression , that all these notes were written by Bacon with the specific object of introducing them into any of his works . Nevertheless , when the same notes are found repeated as ...
... means probable , nor is it intended to convey the impression , that all these notes were written by Bacon with the specific object of introducing them into any of his works . Nevertheless , when the same notes are found repeated as ...
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... means to cultivating the ' invention ' or imagination . It will be seen that Bacon considered ( and he speaks from his experience ) that we cannot form conceptions of things of which we have no knowledge ; and that the imagination must ...
... means to cultivating the ' invention ' or imagination . It will be seen that Bacon considered ( and he speaks from his experience ) that we cannot form conceptions of things of which we have no knowledge ; and that the imagination must ...
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The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594 ... Mrs. Henry Pott Visualização completa - 1883 |
The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594 ... Mrs. Henry Pott,Francis Bacon Visualização completa - 1883 |
The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594 ... Mrs. Henry Pott Visualização completa - 1883 |
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Adagia Advt All's appear authors Bacon Ben Jonson better Cæs Cæsar Collier's text Compare Cymb death dost doth ears Erasmus essay eyes fear Folio fool forms fortune Francis Bacon friends Gentlemen of Verona give Good-morrow Good-night grace grief hast hath heart heaven Heywood's honour idea instance John King Kins Latin Lear lord M. M. ii Macb mind nature never noble Noble Kinsmen Notes of Expressions Ovid passages plays Poems Promus entries Promus notes prose quæ quod quotations Quoted Rich Romeo and Juliet salutation seems Shakespeare similes Sir Thomas Heywood Sonnet soul speak Spedding speech sweet Temp thee thine things thou art thought Toby Matthew tongue truth turns of expression VIII Virg virtue Vulgate words writings
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Página 471 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Página 485 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Página 94 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 298 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Página 427 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Página 433 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Página 188 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Página 104 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Página 210 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Página 463 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.