The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |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 15
... hold that scholars come too soon and too unripe to logic and rhetoric ... for these be the rules and directions how to set forth and dispose matter ; and therefore for minds unfraught and empty with matter , and which have not gathered ...
... hold that scholars come too soon and too unripe to logic and rhetoric ... for these be the rules and directions how to set forth and dispose matter ; and therefore for minds unfraught and empty with matter , and which have not gathered ...
Page 16
... hold diligence and labour in the entry of commonplaces to be a matter of great use and support in studying ; as that which supplies matter to invention , and contracts the sight of the judgment to a point . ' ( De Aug. v . 5. ) 5 ...
... hold diligence and labour in the entry of commonplaces to be a matter of great use and support in studying ; as that which supplies matter to invention , and contracts the sight of the judgment to a point . ' ( De Aug. v . 5. ) 5 ...
Page 26
... hold good with the foreign proverbs . It may be thought likely , or possible , that Shakespeare should have used upwards of 100 of the same English proverbs that Bacon noted , but did not use ; and the coincidence may perhaps be ...
... hold good with the foreign proverbs . It may be thought likely , or possible , that Shakespeare should have used upwards of 100 of the same English proverbs that Bacon noted , but did not use ; and the coincidence may perhaps be ...
Page 29
... hold words , and thoughts which at some time in his life he had chewed and digested . On the supposition that the writer of the plays did not take his ideas from these pro- verbs , the coincidences appear in some cases all the more ...
... hold words , and thoughts which at some time in his life he had chewed and digested . On the supposition that the writer of the plays did not take his ideas from these pro- verbs , the coincidences appear in some cases all the more ...
Page 88
... Promus notes , and many of the small turns of expression which the present writer holds to be tests of Baconian authorship . There are in it one or two allusions ' to Promus notes , which have been found nowhere 88 DOUBTFUL PLAYS .
... Promus notes , and many of the small turns of expression which the present writer holds to be tests of Baconian authorship . There are in it one or two allusions ' to Promus notes , which have been found nowhere 88 DOUBTFUL PLAYS .
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