Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantom Captain Shakespeare, the Rosicrucian MaskK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 436 pages |
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... Bodies compared to a Garden - Abandoned since the Fall - King Lear a neglected piece of ground , crowned with furrow weeds and darnel - The Microcosm the reflection of the Macrocosm - Diseases of the Mind - The Parable of the Talents ...
... Bodies compared to a Garden - Abandoned since the Fall - King Lear a neglected piece of ground , crowned with furrow weeds and darnel - The Microcosm the reflection of the Macrocosm - Diseases of the Mind - The Parable of the Talents ...
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... body of this work , which I venture to think is important . It may therefore as well stand first as last , although not strictly belonging to the character of an introduction . This work as a whole is a painstaking attempt to furnish ...
... body of this work , which I venture to think is important . It may therefore as well stand first as last , although not strictly belonging to the character of an introduction . This work as a whole is a painstaking attempt to furnish ...
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... body . At first , on reading this , as well as the cau- tion in the " Fama Fraternitatis , " already quoted , the term pseudo- chymist seemed to possess little that was pertinent or applicable to Shakespeare . But great was my ...
... body . At first , on reading this , as well as the cau- tion in the " Fama Fraternitatis , " already quoted , the term pseudo- chymist seemed to possess little that was pertinent or applicable to Shakespeare . But great was my ...
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... bodies in the state in which they are , and the retardation of dissolution and putre- faction . " But howsoever the works of wisdom are among human things the most excellent , yet they too have their periods and closes . For so it is ...
... bodies in the state in which they are , and the retardation of dissolution and putre- faction . " But howsoever the works of wisdom are among human things the most excellent , yet they too have their periods and closes . For so it is ...
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... done called up their master to see their naked dead bodies , which they had laid forth . That they were buried under the stairs , and some stones cast upon them . That when the report BACON'S HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... done called up their master to see their naked dead bodies , which they had laid forth . That they were buried under the stairs , and some stones cast upon them . That when the report BACON'S HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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Page 34 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake ! His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan ; Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, Give me some drink, Titinius, As a sick girl.
Page 235 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty . enough, and likelihood to lead it...
Page 325 - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad : Mad in pursuit, and in possession so ; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme ; A bliss in proof, and prov'd, a very woe ; Before, a joy proposed ; behind, a dream.
Page 97 - So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
Page 432 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Page 210 - I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark...
Page 24 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity; And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 178 - But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Page 372 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 70 - Cces. (Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will corns, J Re-enter a SERVANT.