Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . presently set forth. Duke. I am sorry that your leisure serves you , gratify this gentleman, 37° For, in my mind, you are much bovmd to him. [Exeunt Duke and his Most worthy gentleman, I and my friendHave by your wisdom been this day acquittedOf grievous penalties ; in lieu whereof. Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew, 37s We freely cope* your co


Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . presently set forth. Duke. I am sorry that your leisure serves you , gratify this gentleman, 37° For, in my mind, you are much bovmd to him. [Exeunt Duke and his Most worthy gentleman, I and my friendHave by your wisdom been this day acquittedOf grievous penalties ; in lieu whereof. Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew, 37s We freely cope* your courteous pains withal. Antonio. And stand indebted, over and love and service to you evermore. Portia. He is well paid that is M^ell satisfied;And I, delivering you, am therein do account myself well paid:My mind was never yet more mercenary.*I pray you, know me when we meet again:I wish you well, and so I take my leave. 380 353. recant, revoke. 356. late = lately. 363. ten more: making up the twelve jurymen who should hang him. 366. your grace of pardon = pardon of your cope, requite ; withal = more mercenary, anxious for any more reward. II. FRANCIS BACON. THREE CRITICS ON BACONS ESSAYS. I. It is by the Essays that Bacon is best known to the Novum Organum and the De Augmentis are much talked of,but little read. They have produced indeed a vast effect on the THREE CRITICS ON BACONS ESSAYS. 31 opinion of mankind; but they have produced it through the op-eration of intermediate agents. They have moved the intellectswhich have moved the world. It is in the Essays alone that themmd of Bacon is brought into immediate contact with the mindsof ordinary readers. There, he opens an exoteric school, and hetalks to plain men, in language which everybody understands,about things in which everybody is interested. He has thus en-abled those who must otherwise have taken his merits on trustto judge for themselves; and the


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