Best Quotes by Bacon

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”


“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”


“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”


The Essays
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”


“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”


“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”


“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”


“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”


“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”


“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”


“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”


“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”


“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”


“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.”


“There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”


“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”


“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”


“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”


“God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.”


“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”


“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”


“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”


“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

#Quiz
🔰Heidegger's major work *Being and Time* addresses itself to nothing less than the question of Being itself - more particularly, to that mode of being which is specifically human was published in.......
A)1927
B)1937
C)1930
D)2933


🔰modern philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer was a ............
A)Russian
B)Canadian
C)German
D)American


🔰True' history for .............. is an inward, 'authentic' or 'existential' history - a mastering of dread and nothingness, a resoluteness towards death.
A)Heidegger
B)Hussrel
C)Eliot
D)Georg Gadamer


🔰The word 'hermeneutics' was originally confined to the interpretation of sacred scripture; but during the nineteenth century it broadened its scope to encompass the problem of textual interpretation as a whole.
A)True
B)False


🔰The word *hermeneutics* Which means.........
A)Art of exploration
B)Art of interpretation
C)Science
D)only c
E)b&c


🔰Heidegger's two most famous predecessors as 'hermeneuticists' were the ................thinkers *Schleiermacher and Dilthey*; his most celebrated successor is the modern German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. With Gadamer's central study Truth and Method (1960),
A)German
B)American
C)English
D)None


🔰The fact that I may produce Macbeth in a way which makes it relevant to nuclear warfare does not alter the fact that this is not what Macbeth, from Shakespeare's own viewpoint, 'means'. Significances vary throughout history, whereas meanings remain constant;
*Find out true and false*
A)authors put in meanings, whereas readers assign significances.
B)authors put in significance, whereas readers assign meaning


🔰........... reception theory, in fact, is based on a liberal humanist ideology:
A)Iser's
B)Hans-Georg Gadamer ‘s
C)Heidegger ‘s
D)None of the above


🔰A more detailed historical study ofliterary reception is Jean-Paul Sartre's *What is Literature* was written around.........
A)1947
B)1948
C)1949
D)1950


🔰Stanley Fish* is quite happy to accept reception theory, he was a critic of
A)England
B)America
C)German
D) Canadian

#Quiz

1️⃣Who was the “miglior fabbro” to whom The Waste Land was dedicated?
Ezra Pound✅
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
Samuel Beckett
Coco Chanel

2️⃣Which of these household items is not mentioned in Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?
Teacups
Pillows
Lampshades✅
Coffee spoons

3️⃣In Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, who is “the master criminal who can defy the Law”?
Macavity✅
Growltiger
Bustopher Jones
Skimbleshanks

4️⃣From where did Eliot borrow the original title for The Waste Land, He Do the Police In Different Voices?
A popular music hall song
James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend✅
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn

5️⃣Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of The Waste Land?
Ring-a-roses
London Bridge is Falling Down✅
Humpty Dumpty
Jack and Jill

6️⃣Which of these is a phrase from Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?
Do I dare to eat a peach?✅
Do I presume to pare a plum?
Do I try to swallow a grape?
Do I need to marinade a melon?

7️⃣Which religious building is central to Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral?
Durham cathedral
Salisbury cathedral
Westminster cathedral
Canterbury cathedral✅

8️⃣"No water. Dry rocks and dry throats,/ Then thunder, a shower of quotes/ From the Sanskrit and Dante./ Da. Damyata. Shantih./ I hope you'll make sense of the notes." Whose Waste Land parody?
Wendy Cope✅
WH Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
Dr Seuss

9️⃣Which work is sometimes referred to as Eliot’s "conversion poem"?
The Hollow Men
Ash Wednesday✅
The Journey of the Magi
Whispers of Immortality

🔟Before becoming established as a towering presence in literature, Eliot worked for a bank. Which one?
NatWest
Lloyds✅
Lehman Brothers
Abbey National

*“What are feet?*
A foot is a group of two or three syllables. There are three common types of feet—disyllable feet, trisyllable feet, and tetrasyllable (ionic) feet:

*Disyllable Feet:*

iamb (  ˘ ʹ  ) - A two-syllable foot where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

*trochee or choree* (  ʹ ˘  ) - A two-syllable foot where a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.

*pyrrhic or dibrach* (  ˘ ˘  ) - A two-syllable foot where both syllables are”
“unstressed.

*spondee* (  ʹ ʹ  ) - A two-syllable foot where both syllables are stressed.
Trisyllable Feet:

*anapest or antidactylus* (  ˘ ˘ ʹ  ) - A three-syllable foot where the first two syllables are unstressed and the third syllable is stressed.

*dactyl* (  ʹ ˘ ˘  ) - A three-syllable foot where the first syllable is stressed and the last two syllables are unstressed.

*amphibrach* (  ˘ ʹ ˘  ) - A three-syllable foot where the first and third syllables are unstressed and the second syllable is stressed.

*molossus* (  ʹ ʹ ʹ  ) - A three-syllable foot where all three syllables are stressed.

*bacchius* (  ˘ ʹ ʹ  ) - A three-syllable foot where the first syllable is unstressed and the last two syllables are stressed.
*antibaccius* (  ʹ ʹ ˘  ) - A three-syllable foot where the first two syllabl”
“stressed and the third syllable is unstressed.

*cretic or amphimacer* (  ʹ ˘ ʹ  ) - A three-syllable foot where the first and third syllables are stressed and the second syllable is unstressed.

*tribrach* (  ˘ ˘ ˘  ) - A three-syllable foot where all three syllables are unstressed.

*Tetrasyllable (Ionic) Feet*:

*tetrabrach or proceleusmatic* (  ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘  ) - A four-syllable foot where all four syllables are unstressed.

*primus paeon* (  ʹ ˘ ˘ ˘  ) - A four-syllable foot where only the first syllable is stressed.

*secundus paeon* (  ˘ ʹ ˘ ˘  ) - A four-syllable foot where only the second syllable is stressed.

*tertius paeon* (  ˘ ˘ ʹ ˘  ) - A four-syllable foot where only the third syllable is stressed.

*quartus paeon* (  ˘ ˘ ˘ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where only the fourth”syllable is stressed.



*major ionic or triple trochee* (  ʹ ʹ ˘ ˘  ) - A four-syllable foot where the first and second syllables are stressed.
*minor ionic or double iamb* (  ˘ ˘ ʹ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where the first and second syllables are unstressed.
*ditrochee* (  ˘ ʹ ˘ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where the first and third syllables are stressed.
*diiamb* (  ˘ ʹ ˘ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where the first and third syllables are unstressed.
*choriamb* (  ʹ ˘ ˘ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where the second and third syllables are unstressed.
*antispast* (  ˘ ʹ ʹ ˘  ) - A four-syllable foot where the second and third syllables are stressed.
first epitrite (  ˘ ʹ ʹ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where only the first syllable is unstressed.


*second epitrite* (  ʹ ˘ ʹ ʹ  ) - A four-”
“syllable foot where only the second syllable is unstressed.
*third epitrite* (  ʹ ʹ ˘ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where only the third syllable is unstressed.
*fourth epitrite* (  ʹ ʹ ʹ ˘  ) - A four-syllable foot where only the fourth syllable is unstressed.
*dispondee* (  ʹ ʹ ʹ ʹ  ) - A four-syllable foot where all four syllables are stressed.

*What is meter?*
Meter defines the number of feet in a single line of poetry. For example:

💧monometer - One foot
💧dimeter - Two feet
💧trimeter - Three feet
💧tetramter - Four feet
💧pentameter - Five feet
💧hexameter - Six feet
💧heptameter - Seven feet
💧octameter- Eight feet