The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... poems , might well tax any mortal pair of eyes . Not improbably critics will find 6 occasion to modify this statement ; and not till the all- knowing Dictionary appears shall we be in possession of the whole truth . Nevertheless , the ...
... poems , might well tax any mortal pair of eyes . Not improbably critics will find 6 occasion to modify this statement ; and not till the all- knowing Dictionary appears shall we be in possession of the whole truth . Nevertheless , the ...
Page 80
... poems , tales , tracts , dialogues , letters , sermons , and treatises . The necessity for appending this list arises out of the fact , that almost every critic to whom these pages have been submitted has assumed that the writer has not ...
... poems , tales , tracts , dialogues , letters , sermons , and treatises . The necessity for appending this list arises out of the fact , that almost every critic to whom these pages have been submitted has assumed that the writer has not ...
Page 81
... mines which have been worked ; for the plays and poems of authors whose evidence is of chief importance- The chief exceptions to this rule have been noted at p . 2 . G Lyly , Spenser , Raleigh , Marlowe , Peele , NEGATIVE EVIDENCE . 81.
... mines which have been worked ; for the plays and poems of authors whose evidence is of chief importance- The chief exceptions to this rule have been noted at p . 2 . G Lyly , Spenser , Raleigh , Marlowe , Peele , NEGATIVE EVIDENCE . 81.
Page 82
... , it must , at least , be approximately so , and that it may be held to afford evidence of a relation between the notes as a whole and the plays as a whole . lection ' of poems has been counted as ten , 82 AUTHORS CONSULTED .
... , it must , at least , be approximately so , and that it may be held to afford evidence of a relation between the notes as a whole and the plays as a whole . lection ' of poems has been counted as ten , 82 AUTHORS CONSULTED .
Page 83
... poems has been counted as ten , excepting in cases where each is numbered . There are also 118 pieces , chiefly mysteries and plays by unknown authors . An additional list of seventy - five authors of the eighteenth century has been ...
... poems has been counted as ten , excepting in cases where each is numbered . There are also 118 pieces , chiefly mysteries and plays by unknown authors . An additional list of seventy - five authors of the eighteenth century has been ...
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