The Greatest of Literary Problems: The Authorship of the Shakespeare Works; an Exposition of All the Points at Issue, from Their Inception to the Present MomentHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 685 páginas Excerpt from The Greatest of Literary Problems: The Authorship of the Shakespeare Works; An Exposition of All Points at Issue, From Their Inception to the Present Moment God does not ordain the vilest among men to be his messen gers of peace and enlightenment to mankind - and, certainly, the men to whom our pretentious guides have introduced us were among the vilest of their kind. No wonder the world is awakening to the necessity of a higher criticism than that with which it has hitherto been cloyed, and turning to one incomparable genius, who, voicing the primal strains of the Renaissance in Tudor England, bore them on with ever swelling majesty to the close of the grand symphony which ended with his life. This great genius I hope to Show was Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. Time was when I should have dismissed this thesis with impatience, but I am hoping that my readers will weigh the evidence I adduce before condemning me as a mere theorist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... edition , the same dedication bore the name W. Udall . Among the books which once masqueraded under assumed names , many still survive , and their ghostly authors grin at us behind their false masks so nicely adjusted to them by the ...
... editions of pre - Stuart and Stuart works bearing upon it ; the letters and works of Bacon ; the annals and correspondence , as well as the literature of the period , — and assure my readers that they do not have sec- ond - hand ...
... editions , was estimated in 1885 to comprise at least ten thousand volumes . Since that time the 1 The title originated with Bacon , who , as early as 1586 , " put together , " as he says , " A youthful essay · which , with vast ...
... editions . The author of this work , introduces his subject to us in his 1 H. W. Seager , M.B. , Natural History in Shakespeare's Time , p . 5. London , 1886 . preface , as " A soldier , a sailor , 28 THE GREATEST OF LITERARY PROBLEMS.
... edition of the " Shakespeare " Works , who , to lend importance to his subject , which he realizes we know little about , devotes ample space at the outset to prove that he was of heroic extraction . To do this it seems necessary to ...
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