The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |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 xvi
... Causes · • 90. Quotations from Virgil's ' Eclogues , ' Appius in Sall . de Re- publ . Ordin . , ' Ovid's ' Ex . Pont . Am . ' and ' Met . , ' Erasmus ' ' Ad . , ' Lucan , and Homer , chiefly on Orpheus , the Human Mind an Instrument ...
... Causes · • 90. Quotations from Virgil's ' Eclogues , ' Appius in Sall . de Re- publ . Ordin . , ' Ovid's ' Ex . Pont . Am . ' and ' Met . , ' Erasmus ' ' Ad . , ' Lucan , and Homer , chiefly on Orpheus , the Human Mind an Instrument ...
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... causing their style to alter definitely , and in the same respects , at the same periods of their literary lives . We should almost have to bring ourselves to believe that Bacon took notes for the use of Shakespeare , since in the ...
... causing their style to alter definitely , and in the same respects , at the same periods of their literary lives . We should almost have to bring ourselves to believe that Bacon took notes for the use of Shakespeare , since in the ...
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... cause Will in concealment wrap myself the while . ( 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 ...
... cause Will in concealment wrap myself the while . ( 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 ...
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... cause of the great prominence which is given to this and kindred subjects in the plays . The similes and figures drawn from a potion are almost equally frequent in the series of plays from the Mid- summer Night's Dream to Othello : Thy ...
... cause of the great prominence which is given to this and kindred subjects in the plays . The similes and figures drawn from a potion are almost equally frequent in the series of plays from the Mid- summer Night's Dream to Othello : Thy ...
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... cause , and that the value of the material may not be discredited by the weakness of the workman . Folios 110 and 111 are very curious and interesting , not only because nearly every entry in them can be traced into the plays , but ...
... cause , and that the value of the material may not be discredited by the weakness of the workman . Folios 110 and 111 are very curious and interesting , not only because nearly every entry in them can be traced into the plays , but ...
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