The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |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 xvii
... Heaven and Earth - Great Ideas and Small • 99. Erasmus''Ad .'- Of Work , how to undertake it - Stum- bling - Hooking - Persevering - Oracles - Omens . 996. Erasmus ' ' Ad .'- Of Vain Hopes , Vain Labour , & c.- Weak Resolution - Panic ...
... Heaven and Earth - Great Ideas and Small • 99. Erasmus''Ad .'- Of Work , how to undertake it - Stum- bling - Hooking - Persevering - Oracles - Omens . 996. Erasmus ' ' Ad .'- Of Vain Hopes , Vain Labour , & c.- Weak Resolution - Panic ...
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... heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , could give to airy nothing ' a local habitation and a name , ' a genius which Thought and affliction , passion , hell itself , Could turn to favour and to prettiness . The remarks as to the use ...
... heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , could give to airy nothing ' a local habitation and a name , ' a genius which Thought and affliction , passion , hell itself , Could turn to favour and to prettiness . The remarks as to the use ...
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... heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite , I'd not have sold her for it . Another suggestive note is in folio 90 ( 363 ) : An instrument in tunyng . This is a figure which has been worked harder , per ...
... heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite , I'd not have sold her for it . Another suggestive note is in folio 90 ( 363 ) : An instrument in tunyng . This is a figure which has been worked harder , per ...
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... heaven down and all the gods to hearken ; But , being played upon before your time , Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime . ' In many places , too , the harmonies of music are likened to the harmony of the household , ' to the har ...
... heaven down and all the gods to hearken ; But , being played upon before your time , Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime . ' In many places , too , the harmonies of music are likened to the harmony of the household , ' to the har ...
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... heaven there's no shuffling ' ( Ham . iii . 3 ) , no getting out of the dilemma by crafty tricks ; and here the mind of the writer seems to have reverted to the use of the word in connection with card - playing , a use which he repeats ...
... heaven there's no shuffling ' ( Ham . iii . 3 ) , no getting out of the dilemma by crafty tricks ; and here the mind of the writer seems to have reverted to the use of the word in connection with card - playing , a use which he repeats ...
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