Bacon and ShakspereBrentano Bros., 1885 - 48 pages |
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... art blamed shall not be thy defect , For slander's mark was ever yet the fair ; The ornament of beauty is suspect , A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air . So be thou good ; slander doth but approve Thy WRITTEN BY BACON TO ESSEX . 17.
... art blamed shall not be thy defect , For slander's mark was ever yet the fair ; The ornament of beauty is suspect , A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air . So be thou good ; slander doth but approve Thy WRITTEN BY BACON TO ESSEX . 17.
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William Henry Burr. So be thou good ; slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater , being wooed of time . " In 1590 Bacon had acquired a reputation as an orator in the House of Commons , but was without available means of livelihood ...
William Henry Burr. So be thou good ; slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater , being wooed of time . " In 1590 Bacon had acquired a reputation as an orator in the House of Commons , but was without available means of livelihood ...
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... doth such substance give That I in thy abundance am sufficed , And by a part of all thy glory live . " In 1590 Shakspere was part owner of a theater . In 1590 Bacon obtained his first show of favor from the court ; he became Queen's ...
... doth such substance give That I in thy abundance am sufficed , And by a part of all thy glory live . " In 1590 Shakspere was part owner of a theater . In 1590 Bacon obtained his first show of favor from the court ; he became Queen's ...
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... doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me , whose deep conceit is such As , passing all conceit , needs no defense . " This verse is in " The Passionate Pilgrim , " the first two numbers of which are Sonnets 138 and 144 with slight ...
... doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me , whose deep conceit is such As , passing all conceit , needs no defense . " This verse is in " The Passionate Pilgrim , " the first two numbers of which are Sonnets 138 and 144 with slight ...
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... doth bear , My saucy bark , inferior far to his , On your broad main doth wilfully appear ; Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat , Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride ; Or being wrecked , I am a worthless boat , He of ...
... doth bear , My saucy bark , inferior far to his , On your broad main doth wilfully appear ; Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat , Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride ; Or being wrecked , I am a worthless boat , He of ...
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addressed appears autograph Bacon and Shakspere Bacon wrote Barnfield birds sing madrigals Burleigh Chandos portrait Charles Mackay conceit copy Corydon couplet dedicated deed doth Dowland Earl of Essex edition of 1614 editor England's Helicon Faery Queen falls Melodious birds father Finis flocks feed FRANCIS BACON Greville Halliwell-Phillipps hath heavenly touch HENRY BURR honor illiterate John Joseph Taylor King James letter lines Lord Love's man-at-arms Marlowe Melodious birds sing merry mortgage never noto Nymph's Reply omits parallels Passionate Pilgrim person pieces play poem portrait praise published Richard Barnfield Richard Grant White says secret authorship Shakespeare Shakesper shallow rivers Shaxberd Shaxper Shepherd sign his name signature signed Ig signed Ignoto Sir Walter Raleigh song Sonnets spelling Spenser stanza Stratford subscribed Ignoto supposed sweet thee thou art thousand fragrant posies thy love verse William Shakspere wilt write WRITTEN BY FRANCIS xviii young younger youth
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Page 35 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 18 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Page 24 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 32 - As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made...
Page 24 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 34 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 32 - now would she cry; " Ter u, Teru ! " by and by ; That to hear her so complain Scarce I could from tears refrain; For her griefs, so lively shown, Made me think upon mine own. Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in...
Page 15 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 35 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
Page 33 - Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle. A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.