Bacon and Shakespeare ParallelismsC.E. Goodspeed, 1902 - 441 pages |
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... fools ! Why have I blabb'd ? Who shall be true to us , When we are 60 unsecret to ourselves ? " Troilus and Cressida , iii . 2 ( 1609 ) . " The secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab ? " - Essay of ...
... fools ! Why have I blabb'd ? Who shall be true to us , When we are 60 unsecret to ourselves ? " Troilus and Cressida , iii . 2 ( 1609 ) . " The secret man heareth many confessions ; for who will open himself to a blab ? " - Essay of ...
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... fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks , But bears it out e'en to the edge of doom . If this be error , and upon me proved , I never writ , nor no man ...
... fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks , But bears it out e'en to the edge of doom . If this be error , and upon me proved , I never writ , nor no man ...
Page 78
... Fool . ] And thou , his yoke- fellow of equity , Bench by his side . Edgar . Let us deal justly . " King Lear , iii . 6 ( 1608 ) . From Bacon " Equity is the dispenser of the king's conscience , following the law and justice , [ but ] ...
... Fool . ] And thou , his yoke- fellow of equity , Bench by his side . Edgar . Let us deal justly . " King Lear , iii . 6 ( 1608 ) . From Bacon " Equity is the dispenser of the king's conscience , following the law and justice , [ but ] ...
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... fools , than fools by wise men . " - Apo- thegms ( 1624 ) . Bacon was very fond of apothegms , as he was also of proverbs . He refers to them as useful productions in the first edition of his ' Advancement of Learning ' in 1605 , and ...
... fools , than fools by wise men . " - Apo- thegms ( 1624 ) . Bacon was very fond of apothegms , as he was also of proverbs . He refers to them as useful productions in the first edition of his ' Advancement of Learning ' in 1605 , and ...
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... fools , in Shake - speare : they illustrate Bacon's favorite method of imparting philosophy without contention . " In the reflections of Falstaff , " says Mr. Hudson , " we have a clear , though brief , view of the profound philosopher ...
... fools , in Shake - speare : they illustrate Bacon's favorite method of imparting philosophy without contention . " In the reflections of Falstaff , " says Mr. Hudson , " we have a clear , though brief , view of the profound philosopher ...
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Page 39 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 128 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Page 159 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 106 - The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave that is her womb, And from her womb children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find, Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some and yet all different.
Page 169 - Her own shall bless her: Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow: Good grows with her: In her days, every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine, what he plants...
Page 68 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 310 - By certain scales i" the pyramid ; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest.
Page 275 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say ' This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 124 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — to beguile the time, Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Page 113 - Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room. Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom.