Great English Writers, Volume 1Oscar James Campbell, Hardin Craig, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Joseph Morris Thomas F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 - English literature A chronological rearrangement, with many additions, of the material included in the editors' Great English poets and Great English prose writers. cf. Pref. |
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Page 243
... Bacon states , and his letter to Essex seems to bear him out , that he had informed his lordship that he ( Bacon ) was ready to serve as far as his duty to his sovereign would permit and no further : " and as much as is lawful to be en ...
... Bacon states , and his letter to Essex seems to bear him out , that he had informed his lordship that he ( Bacon ) was ready to serve as far as his duty to his sovereign would permit and no further : " and as much as is lawful to be en ...
Page 244
... Bacon was not in an ordinary sense a taker of bribes . He and all the court received gifts of a character and from sources which would never be tolerated in our world . " If , " said James to a Venetian ambassador , " I were to begin to ...
... Bacon was not in an ordinary sense a taker of bribes . He and all the court received gifts of a character and from sources which would never be tolerated in our world . " If , " said James to a Venetian ambassador , " I were to begin to ...
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... Bacon's did . He perhaps did not seek clear- ness so much as force and adequacy , but above all he sought compression . Two passages may serve to bring this out . The first is from Novum Organum , and the second is Ben Jonson's well ...
... Bacon's did . He perhaps did not seek clear- ness so much as force and adequacy , but above all he sought compression . Two passages may serve to bring this out . The first is from Novum Organum , and the second is Ben Jonson's well ...
Contents
PRECHAUCERIAN POETRY | 1 |
English Prose from the Beginnings | 237 |
OF ANGER | 267 |
Copyright | |
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