The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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Page viii
... present unknown source ; or ( 2 ) one of the two borrowed from the other . Tho author's belief is ( pp . 95-7 ) that the play is indebted for these expressions to the Promus ; mine is that the Promus borrowed them from the play . But in ...
... present unknown source ; or ( 2 ) one of the two borrowed from the other . Tho author's belief is ( pp . 95-7 ) that the play is indebted for these expressions to the Promus ; mine is that the Promus borrowed them from the play . But in ...
Page 1
... present arrangement , which accordingly begins at folio 83. Many of the sheets are covered with notes on both sides . known and characteristic handwriting . The French proverbs appear to 2 B да FOLIO 94b Erasmus, and a few Italian Proverbs.
... present arrangement , which accordingly begins at folio 83. Many of the sheets are covered with notes on both sides . known and characteristic handwriting . The French proverbs appear to 2 B да FOLIO 94b Erasmus, and a few Italian Proverbs.
Page 2
... presents a still closer likeness to the conclusion of a later letter to Burghley which is extant . The reasons which have led ... present writer has been for some years engaged , with a view to proving , from internal evidence , Bacon's ...
... presents a still closer likeness to the conclusion of a later letter to Burghley which is extant . The reasons which have led ... present writer has been for some years engaged , with a view to proving , from internal evidence , Bacon's ...
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... present not to be found . ' " ' Whatever , ' resumes Mr. Spedding , may be the value of these collections , they have clearly no right to appear amongst the works of Bacon . ... But there is a MS . in the British Museum , written in ...
... present not to be found . ' " ' Whatever , ' resumes Mr. Spedding , may be the value of these collections , they have clearly no right to appear amongst the works of Bacon . ... But there is a MS . in the British Museum , written in ...
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... present themselves . ' As we advance , the collection becomes less miscel- laneous , as if his memory had been ranging within a smaller circumference . In one place , for instance , we find a cluster of quotations from the Bible ...
... present themselves . ' As we advance , the collection becomes less miscel- laneous , as if his memory had been ranging within a smaller circumference . In one place , for instance , we find a cluster of quotations from the Bible ...
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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