The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |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
... expressions to the Promus; mine is that the Promus borrowed them from the play. But in any case, if the reader will refer to the author's comments on this passage (pp. 65–7) he will find other similarities between the play and the ...
... expressions to the Promus; mine is that the Promus borrowed them from the play. But in any case, if the reader will refer to the author's comments on this passage (pp. 65–7) he will find other similarities between the play and the ...
Page xiv
... expressing my own feelings , as a lover of Shakespeare and of Bacon , and I trust I shall be expressing the feeling of many others , in wel- coming ( without ill - feeling to the author for her Shake- spearian heresy and with much ...
... expressing my own feelings , as a lover of Shakespeare and of Bacon , and I trust I shall be expressing the feeling of many others , in wel- coming ( without ill - feeling to the author for her Shake- spearian heresy and with much ...
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... expression , of repartee , little bright ideas jotted down as they occurred , and which were to reappear , made - up , ' variegated , in- tensified , and indefinitely multiplied , as they radiated from that wonderful ' brayne cut with ...
... expression , of repartee , little bright ideas jotted down as they occurred , and which were to reappear , made - up , ' variegated , in- tensified , and indefinitely multiplied , as they radiated from that wonderful ' brayne cut with ...
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... expression applicable to such matters as a man might have occasion to touch in conversation ; neatly turned sentences describing personal characters or qualities ; forms of compliment , application , excuse , re- partee , & c . These ...
... expression applicable to such matters as a man might have occasion to touch in conversation ; neatly turned sentences describing personal characters or qualities ; forms of compliment , application , excuse , re- partee , & c . These ...
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... expression , and peculiar use of words ; that they preferred and chiefly quoted the same books in the Bible and the same authors ; and last , not least , that they derived from proverbs , quotations , turns of expression , & c . , which ...
... expression , and peculiar use of words ; that they preferred and chiefly quoted the same books in the Bible and the same authors ; and last , not least , that they derived from proverbs , quotations , turns of expression , & c . , which ...
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