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... virtue . " - Nat . Hist . Cent . x . 967. ) * Advice - See Counsel . Anxiety - See Care . " Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when 12 Adversity . MANNERS , MIND , MORALS .
... virtue . " - Nat . Hist . Cent . x . 967. ) * Advice - See Counsel . Anxiety - See Care . " Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when 12 Adversity . MANNERS , MIND , MORALS .
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Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott. " Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue . " - Ess . of Adversity . Comp ...
Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott. " Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue . " - Ess . of Adversity . Comp ...
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... Virtue is choked with foul ambition And dogged York that reaches at the moon , Whose over - weening arm I have pluck'd back , By false accuse doth level at my life . " -2 Hen . VI . iii . 1 . Compare with this passage the following ...
... Virtue is choked with foul ambition And dogged York that reaches at the moon , Whose over - weening arm I have pluck'd back , By false accuse doth level at my life . " -2 Hen . VI . iii . 1 . Compare with this passage the following ...
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... virtues graced with eternal gifts , " & c . -1 Hen . VI . v . 5 . BEAUTY in Expression or Favour . " That is the best part of beauty , which a picture ... Virtue is best in a 34 Beauty . MANNERS , MIND , MORALS . BEAUTY with Grace. ...
... virtues graced with eternal gifts , " & c . -1 Hen . VI . v . 5 . BEAUTY in Expression or Favour . " That is the best part of beauty , which a picture ... Virtue is best in a 34 Beauty . MANNERS , MIND , MORALS . BEAUTY with Grace. ...
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... Virtue . ) " Virtue is like a rich stone plainly set . Neither is it almost seen that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue ; as if Nature were rather busy not to err than in labour to produce excellency . " - Ess . of ...
... Virtue . ) " Virtue is like a rich stone plainly set . Neither is it almost seen that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue ; as if Nature were rather busy not to err than in labour to produce excellency . " - Ess . of ...
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OBITER DICTA OF BACON & SHAKES Francis 1561-1626 Bacon,William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,Henry Mrs Pott, 1833-1915 No preview available - 2016 |
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Adagia Advt affection All's anger Antitheta art thou Bacon beauty behaviour better body Boldness Brutus Cæs Cæsar constancy contempt Coriolanus custom Cymb death deceives deformity devil discourse Dissimulation doth dreams Duke envy evil eyes fair false Falstaff fame fault fear fool fortune Francis Bacon friends Gent give grace grief hast hath heart Heaven honour humour Iago imagination John John iv judgment Julius Cæsar king knowledge Lady Lear Learning live look lord Love's Labour's Lost Macb man's men's mind Nature never noble observe Paracelsus play Polonius praise pride Prince Promus proud Rich scorn Shakespeare sick slander sophism soul speak speech sweet Temp thee There's things thou art thought tongue true truth Twelfth Night vice VIII virtue Winter's Tale wisdom wise woman words youth