The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |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 xviii
... Virtues -- Race 123b . Col. G. and E .'- Latin sentences - Of the Bent of Nature-- Ignoble Minds - The Greater contains the Less - Great Desires - Prudent Choice - Creation and Preservation- Consequences Types Surpassing Things ...
... Virtues -- Race 123b . Col. G. and E .'- Latin sentences - Of the Bent of Nature-- Ignoble Minds - The Greater contains the Less - Great Desires - Prudent Choice - Creation and Preservation- Consequences Types Surpassing Things ...
Page 14
... virtue , courage , anger , rage , friendship , love , hatred , dissimulation , speech , brevity , silence , life , death , & c . Such subjects may well be supposed to have occupied the thoughts of one who was preparing to write essays ...
... virtue , courage , anger , rage , friendship , love , hatred , dissimulation , speech , brevity , silence , life , death , & c . Such subjects may well be supposed to have occupied the thoughts of one who was preparing to write essays ...
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... virtue ; as the stone bad need to be rich that is set without foil . ' The figure re- appears slightly altered in the essay Of Beauty : Virtue is like a rich stone , best plain - set . ' Again , in one of Bacon's speeches it is expanded ...
... virtue ; as the stone bad need to be rich that is set without foil . ' The figure re- appears slightly altered in the essay Of Beauty : Virtue is like a rich stone , best plain - set . ' Again , in one of Bacon's speeches it is expanded ...
Page 61
... virtue , youth , liberality , and such like , the salt and spice that season a man ? 6 6 Folio 111 , the group of notes which now call for con- sideration is perhaps the one most deserving of it on account of the strong support it ...
... virtue , youth , liberality , and such like , the salt and spice that season a man ? 6 6 Folio 111 , the group of notes which now call for con- sideration is perhaps the one most deserving of it on account of the strong support it ...
Page 70
... virtue , and impatience a stay ' ; that we must work as God works ; and that we are all in the hands of God . There are also many small remarks drawn from Bacon's experiments and notes elsewhere , all of which will be found introduced ...
... virtue , and impatience a stay ' ; that we must work as God works ; and that we are all in the hands of God . There are also many small remarks drawn from Bacon's experiments and notes elsewhere , all of which will be found introduced ...
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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