Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... Book II of The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon , Of the Proficience and advancement of Learning , divine and humane ( 1605 ) ; the inserts in brackets represent addi- tions made by Bacon when he came to include the Twoo Bookes in the De ...
... Book II of The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon , Of the Proficience and advancement of Learning , divine and humane ( 1605 ) ; the inserts in brackets represent addi- tions made by Bacon when he came to include the Twoo Bookes in the De ...
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... book de Originibus . And for an Historian in our tongue to affect the like out of those our poets would bee accounted a fowl oversight . That therefore must not bee , unlesse perhaps ' wee cite the words of some old moniment , as Livie ...
... book de Originibus . And for an Historian in our tongue to affect the like out of those our poets would bee accounted a fowl oversight . That therefore must not bee , unlesse perhaps ' wee cite the words of some old moniment , as Livie ...
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... Book . For in other places , although the beginning of his Allegory or mysticall sense , may be obscure , yet in the processe of it , he doth himself declare his own conceptions in such sort as they are obvious to any ordinarie ...
... Book . For in other places , although the beginning of his Allegory or mysticall sense , may be obscure , yet in the processe of it , he doth himself declare his own conceptions in such sort as they are obvious to any ordinarie ...
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