Bacon's Secret Disclosed in Contempoary BooksGay & Hancock, Limited, 1911 - 180 pages |
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Page 177 - Who as he was a happy imitator of Nature was a most gentle expressor of it. His mind and hand went together. And what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not our province who only gather his works* and give them to you, to praise him.
Page 117 - Peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. Unhappy Wight, born to disastrous end, That doth his life in so long tendance spend.
Page 15 - How careful was I, when I took my way, Each trifle under truest bars to thrust, That to my use it might unused stay From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust! But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Page 177 - They do not profess to act in any other capacity, except to correct errors that had come with the publications, for they say very plainly : ' We pray you do not envy his Friends the office of their care and pain to have collected and published them [
Page 86 - Spenser in affecting the Ancients writ no Language ; yet I would have him read for his matter; but as Virgil read Ennius.' This is indeed mild notice as compared with the eulogium of the unknown biographer I have been considering, but Jonson's treatment of the Elizabethan poets and writers throughout is extremely puzzling. His remarks upon Shakespeare are well known,
Page 178 - And though you be a Magistrate of Wit, and sit on the stage at Black-Friars or the Cock pit to arraign Plays daily, know these plays have had their trial already and stood out all Appeals;
Page 13 - to decipher; and in some cases, that they bee without suspicion. The highest degree whereof is to write Omnia per omnia; which is undoubtedly possible, with a proportion Quintuple at most, of the writing infoulding, to the writing infoulded, and no other restrainte whatsoever. This Arte of Ciphering
Page 114 - GNAT, LONG SINCE DEDICATED TO THE MOST NOBLE AND EXCELLENT LORD, THE EARL OF LEICESTER, DECEASED. ' Wronged, yet not daring to express my pain, To you (great lord) the causer of my care, In clowdie tears my case I thus complaine Unto your self, that only privy are.
Page 119 - Her Majesty is not ready to dispatch it. And what though the Mr. of the Rowles, and my Lo: of Essex, and yourself and others, think my case without doubt; yet in the meantime I have a hard condition to stand so, that whatsoever service I do to Her Majesty, it shall be thought to be but servitium viscatum,
Page 13 - rawnesses and unskillfullnesses of the handes through which they passe, the greatest Matter are many times carried in the weakest ciphers. ' In the enumeration of these private and retyred Artes it may bee thought I seeke to make a great Muster Rowle of Sciences ; naming them for shew and ostentation, and to little other purpose. But let those which are