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The Authorship of Shakespeare (Volume 2); With an Appendix of Additional Matters, Including a Notice of the Recently Discovered Northumberland Mss., a ... Bacon Was the Real Author, and a Full Index - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SUPPLEMENT. Since the Appendix was added to the third edition, in 1875, some further particulars have come to my notice, which are deemed to have a sufficiently important bearing upon the subject to be given in this Supplement. Some of them are matters of curious interest in themselves apart from our question, and, altogether, they may at least confirm believers, or strengthen the skeptical in their wavering faith, even if they should carry no more conviction to the minds of dissenters than what has gone before. As additional evidence, it is rather cumulative than different in kind from that heretofore produced, and it is limited to those items which seemed to me to have some direct and peculiar weight upon the immediate question of Bacon's hand in the work, or as showing distinct traces of his learning, mind, and genius, earmarks (as it were) of what properly belonged only to himself; not imagining, however, that I have exhausted them all. The less weighty might easily grow weaker and weaker until they ran out to the infinity of zero. The most notable accession to the evidence that has recently come to my knowledge is that made by Mrs. Henry Pott, of London, in her important publication of Bacon's "Promcs," 1 with elucidations from the Shakespeare plays. It impresses me, on the whole, as "confirmation strong as 1 The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies by Francis Bacon, illustrated and elucidated by passages from Shakespeare. By Mrs. Henry Pott, with a Preface by E. A. Abbott, D. D. Boston, 1883. proofs of Holy Writ." Still, it is only more of tho same sort. Its most striking peculiarity (I should say) is, that, like the Northumberland MS., it gives us an authentic glimpse of Bacon in his literary workshop. Among others, whose writings in the same direction ma...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 021762085X
- ISBN 13 9780217620857
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages148
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