The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... ( Lear , ii . 2 , 1 ) , Good - dawning to thee , friend . ' The quartos are so perplexed by this strange phrase that they alter dawning ' into ' even , ' although a little farther on Kent welcomes the ' comfortable beams ' of the rising ...
... ( Lear , ii . 2 , 1 ) , Good - dawning to thee , friend . ' The quartos are so perplexed by this strange phrase that they alter dawning ' into ' even , ' although a little farther on Kent welcomes the ' comfortable beams ' of the rising ...
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... Lear , for instance , a larger number of proverbs may be counted than are to be found in any of the other plays . Several of these , however , are traceable to the list of choice French proverbs ' which form the concluding folios of the ...
... Lear , for instance , a larger number of proverbs may be counted than are to be found in any of the other plays . Several of these , however , are traceable to the list of choice French proverbs ' which form the concluding folios of the ...
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... Lear , iii . 6 , which contains the sentiment and some of the leading words of the two proverbs in conjunction : - The mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates , and bearing fellowship ; How light and portable my pain ...
... Lear , iii . 6 , which contains the sentiment and some of the leading words of the two proverbs in conjunction : - The mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates , and bearing fellowship ; How light and portable my pain ...
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... ( Lear . iv 3. ) Then there is the entry , avenues . This word also is not to be found in the plays , nor , it may be said , in the prose works of Bacon ; but there occur in various forms the ideas which the word seems intended to bring ...
... ( Lear . iv 3. ) Then there is the entry , avenues . This word also is not to be found in the plays , nor , it may be said , in the prose works of Bacon ; but there occur in various forms the ideas which the word seems intended to bring ...
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... Lear , Hamlet , and Othello . In these calculations expressions are counted , or are supposed to be counted , each time they occur . Hence in the earlier plays , where the same notes are frequently repeated , the total is larger than it ...
... Lear , Hamlet , and Othello . In these calculations expressions are counted , or are supposed to be counted , each time they occur . Hence in the earlier plays , where the same notes are frequently repeated , the total is larger than it ...
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Adagia Advt All's All's W Bacon bear Ben Jonson better Cæs Cæsar Collier's text Compare Cymb death discourse dost doth ears entry Eras Essay evil eyes fear Folio fool fortune Francis Bacon friends give Good-morrow grace grief hath hear heart heaven honour John judgment King Kins L. L. L. iv Latin Lear lord Lucrece M. M. ii Macb mind nature never night noble Noble Kinsmen Ovid passages plays Promus notes proverbs quæ quod Quoted Rich Romeo and Juliet seems Shakespeare sleep Sonnet soul speak Spedding speech sweet tell Temp thee there's thine things thou art thou hast thought tongue truth turns of expression VIII Virg virtue Vulgate words writings