The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... eyes . Not improbably critics will find 6 occasion to modify this statement ; and not till the all- knowing Dictionary appears shall we be in possession of the whole truth . Nevertheless , the author is probably correct , that the ...
... eyes . Not improbably critics will find 6 occasion to modify this statement ; and not till the all- knowing Dictionary appears shall we be in possession of the whole truth . Nevertheless , the author is probably correct , that the ...
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... eyes on some proverbial saying . One in five or six of these will probably be found in Heywood's epi- grams , but the rest , although some of them are still popular , are neither in Heywood , nor in the Promus , nor in the plays . For ...
... eyes on some proverbial saying . One in five or six of these will probably be found in Heywood's epi- grams , but the rest , although some of them are still popular , are neither in Heywood , nor in the Promus , nor in the plays . For ...
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... eye is caught by the suggestive words creep and go , and by a rapid turn in the expression he presents us with the new and charming thought , that in cases where love cannot ' go ' boldly in and make a show by active and demonstrative ...
... eye is caught by the suggestive words creep and go , and by a rapid turn in the expression he presents us with the new and charming thought , that in cases where love cannot ' go ' boldly in and make a show by active and demonstrative ...
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... eyes ? Is it real that I see ? Hel , No , good my lord : ' Tis but the shadow of a wife you see ; The name and not the thing . The last two lines seem to suggest the double idea of ' royal ' and ' actual , ' or genuine ; perhaps they ...
... eyes ? Is it real that I see ? Hel , No , good my lord : ' Tis but the shadow of a wife you see ; The name and not the thing . The last two lines seem to suggest the double idea of ' royal ' and ' actual , ' or genuine ; perhaps they ...
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... eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not birth , beauty , good shape , discourse , manhood , learning , gentleness , virtue , youth , liberality , and such like , the salt and spice that season a man ? Folio 111 , the group of notes ...
... eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not birth , beauty , good shape , discourse , manhood , learning , gentleness , virtue , youth , liberality , and such like , the salt and spice that season a man ? Folio 111 , the group of notes ...
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Adagia Advt All's All's W Bacon bear Ben Jonson better Cæs Cæsar Cleo Collier's text Compare Cymb death dost doth entry Eras Essay evil eyes fear Folio fool fortune Francis Bacon friends give Good-morrow Good-night grace grief hath hear heart heaven Heywood's honour instance John King Kins Latin Lear lord M. M. ii Macb matter mind nature never noble Noble Kinsmen Ovid passages plays Promus notes proverbs quæ quod Quoted Rich Romeo and Juliet salutation seems Shakespeare similes Sir Thomas Heywood sleep Sonnet soul speak Spedding speech sweet tell Temp thee thine things thou art thought Toby Matthew tongue truth turns of expression VIII Virg virtue Vulgate words writings