The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... better wait for the issue of Dr. Murray's great Dictionary which will tell us to how many of these experiments we are indebted for words now current in our language . Many interesting philological or literary questions will be raised by ...
... better wait for the issue of Dr. Murray's great Dictionary which will tell us to how many of these experiments we are indebted for words now current in our language . Many interesting philological or literary questions will be raised by ...
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... better than read Mr. Spedding's account of them : 3 · • All the editions of Bacon's works contain a small collection of Latin sentences collected from the Mimi of Publius Syrus , under the title of Ornamenta Rationalia , followed by a ...
... better than read Mr. Spedding's account of them : 3 · • All the editions of Bacon's works contain a small collection of Latin sentences collected from the Mimi of Publius Syrus , under the title of Ornamenta Rationalia , followed by a ...
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... better , illustrations than those which have been collected . It will require the combined efforts of many minds to bring the work which has been attempted to a satisfactory state of completion , and it is not to be hoped that there ...
... better , illustrations than those which have been collected . It will require the combined efforts of many minds to bring the work which has been attempted to a satisfactory state of completion , and it is not to be hoped that there ...
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... Better to bow than break ' is not used in the plays in its simple form , but there is a passage in Lear , iii . 6 , which contains the sentiment and some of the leading words of the two proverbs in conjunction : - The mind much ...
... Better to bow than break ' is not used in the plays in its simple form , but there is a passage in Lear , iii . 6 , which contains the sentiment and some of the leading words of the two proverbs in conjunction : - The mind much ...
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... better man than Troilus . Pan . Achilles ! a drayman , a porter , a very camel . Cres . Well , well . Pan . Well , well ? Why , have you any discretion ? Have you any eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not birth , beauty , good shape ...
... better man than Troilus . Pan . Achilles ! a drayman , a porter , a very camel . Cres . Well , well . Pan . Well , well ? Why , have you any discretion ? Have you any eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not birth , beauty , good shape ...
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