Could Bacon Have Written the Plays?: A Brief Study of CharacteristicsE. Ponsonby, 1909 - 31 páginas |
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116 GRAFTON STREET admirably chosen anthology antithesis Apollo assigns to Bacon authorship of Paradise BACON HAVE WRITTEN Bacon writes Baconian camp biographers Cantor Clio Comedy of Errors credited to Bacon Cupid disgusting lampoon drama dramatist DUBLIN elegies Essay Essex F.R.U.I. But tell fancy figure Lord Bacon's folly genius Gentlemen of Verona GEORGE O'NEILL Greenwood's hatched by Night horns a difficulty imagination Inns of Court John ACombe Julius Cæsar Kuno Fischer lawyer literary Lord Bacon Lucretius Lyrics Maistre masque mind miserable epitaph Muses nature Novum Organum numbers Numeri Palgrave panegyric Paradise Lost passage Pegasean arts philosophy of love pieces of Bacon's poet poetry PONSONBY prosaic prose Psalms questioning Bacon's authorship reason Romeo and Juliet says Shakspeare more certainly Shakspearian plays Shelley side the encouraging Sidney Lee Songs speaks speculative Spedding spirit style things thou tions treatment of love unpoetical Bacon verse weak passion WRITTEN THE PLAYS
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Página 9 - The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but writes in dust. Yet...
Página 11 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Página 23 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume : the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite : Therefore love moderately ; long love doth so ; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Página 17 - Lord Bacon was a poet.» His language has a sweet and majestic rhythm, which satisfies the sense, no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which distends, and then bursts the circumference of the reader's mind, and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpetual sympathy.
Página 17 - Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Raphael and Michael Angelo had never been born ; if the Hebrew poetry had never been translated ; if a revival of the study of Greek literature had never taken place; if no monuments of ancient sculpture had been handed down to us ; and if the poetry of the religion of the ancient world had been extinguished together with its belief.
Página 19 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 23 - It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value of things, by this; that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love. Neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self; certainly the lover is more.
Página 19 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 19 - ... to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men...
Página 11 - To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!