The Essays of Francis BaconC. Scribner's sons, 1908 - 293 Seiten |
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... flowers Bacon mentions in his Elizabethan gar- den , except those so familiar as to need no comment . And wherever any of them is mentioned by Shak- spere I have added a posy from his plays . But Keats and Cowper and Tennyson and Ben ...
... flowers Bacon mentions in his Elizabethan gar- den , except those so familiar as to need no comment . And wherever any of them is mentioned by Shak- spere I have added a posy from his plays . But Keats and Cowper and Tennyson and Ben ...
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... Flowers , in celebration of the marriage of Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset , with Lady Frances Howard , the divorced wife of Essex's son , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Es- sex . Sir Francis Bacon , the new Attorney - Gen- eral , was ...
... Flowers , in celebration of the marriage of Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset , with Lady Frances Howard , the divorced wife of Essex's son , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Es- sex . Sir Francis Bacon , the new Attorney - Gen- eral , was ...
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... flowers , which he sayd did refresh his spirits and memorie . ' And again , - " His Lordship was a very contemplative person , and was wont to con- template in his delicious walks at Gorhambury , and dictate to Mr. Bushell , or some of ...
... flowers , which he sayd did refresh his spirits and memorie . ' And again , - " His Lordship was a very contemplative person , and was wont to con- template in his delicious walks at Gorhambury , and dictate to Mr. Bushell , or some of ...
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... flowers that grow by the wayside for any one to pluck . A whole body of them come from contemporary sports , cards ... flower of sulphur for the lungs , castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend , " Of ...
... flowers that grow by the wayside for any one to pluck . A whole body of them come from contemporary sports , cards ... flower of sulphur for the lungs , castoreum for the brain ; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend , " Of ...
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... flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country . XIX . OF EMPIRE . It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire , and many things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of kings ; who ...
... flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country . XIX . OF EMPIRE . It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire , and many things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of kings ; who ...
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action Advancement of Learning Amias Paulet amongst ancient Anne Bacon Apophthegmes atheism Augustus Bacon quotes Ben Jonson better Bible bold Caesar called Caput CHIG Cicero commonly Cornelii Cornelii Taciti corrupt counsel Court cunning custom danger death discourse dissimulation doth Earl Earl of Essex Elizabeth Elizabethan England English envy essay Essex Faery Queene flowers fortune Francis Bacon garden Gorhambury Gray's Inn Greek hath honour judge judgment Julius Caesar King Henry language Latin Liber likewise lived Livy Lord Lord Chancellor Bacon maketh man's matter means men's ment mind moral nature ness never opinion persons philosopher pleasure Plutarch princes Proverbs Queen religion revenge riches Roman emperor saith Seneca servants Shakspere shew sort speak speech Tacitus thereof things thou thought tion translation truth UNIV unto usury Vespasian virtue Vulgate wisdom wise words
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Seite 23 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 29 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Seite 118 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 109 - ... if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Seite 213 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Seite 75 - melior natura;" which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain...
Seite 5 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.
Seite 234 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 47 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Seite 126 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.