The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare Plays, Volume 1S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888 - 998 pages |
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... kind , it is necessary for them to prove that Plato , too , was translated into English at the same time ; for the celebrated soliloquy , " To be or not to be , " is taken almost verbatim from that philosopher ; yet we have never found ...
... kind , it is necessary for them to prove that Plato , too , was translated into English at the same time ; for the celebrated soliloquy , " To be or not to be , " is taken almost verbatim from that philosopher ; yet we have never found ...
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... kind was then an unknown art in the district . There was a far greater amount of moisture in the land than would now be thought possible , and streamlets of water - power suffi- School of Shak . , vol . i , p . 60 . 2 Life and Genius of ...
... kind was then an unknown art in the district . There was a far greater amount of moisture in the land than would now be thought possible , and streamlets of water - power suffi- School of Shak . , vol . i , p . 60 . 2 Life and Genius of ...
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... kind of rhythmical roaring , there is not the remotest chance of a Beethoven arising : then you must admit that the genesis of the great man depends on the long series of complex influences which has produced the race in which he ...
... kind of rhythmical roaring , there is not the remotest chance of a Beethoven arising : then you must admit that the genesis of the great man depends on the long series of complex influences which has produced the race in which he ...
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... kind , he could have learned Latin and some Greek . Some English , too ; but not much , for English was held in scorn by the scholars of those days , and long after.1 It will readily be conceded that in such a town , among such a people ...
... kind , he could have learned Latin and some Greek . Some English , too ; but not much , for English was held in scorn by the scholars of those days , and long after.1 It will readily be conceded that in such a town , among such a people ...
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... kind of language used by Shakspere during his youth , and by all the uneducated people of his county , I select , at random , a few words from the Warwick- shire dialect : Tageous , troublesome ; Kiver , a butter tub ; Grinsard , the ...
... kind of language used by Shakspere during his youth , and by all the uneducated people of his county , I select , at random , a few words from the Warwick- shire dialect : Tageous , troublesome ; Kiver , a butter tub ; Grinsard , the ...
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Page 433 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 237 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 118 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 237 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 497 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in: What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us: Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Page 383 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 272 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 353 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 158 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 330 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent 76 voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak.