This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...and can hardly help thinking that the devil must be in him.' 1 Henry iv, 1. 6 Macaulay's Essays--Bacon, p. 270. 2 Lear, Hi, 4. 8 Ibid., p. 285. William H. Smith, Bacon and Shak., p. 6. 'Ibid., p. 285. Works 0/ Lord Bacon, vol. i, p. 116. And Hen Jonson says of Bacon: His language, where he ton!J spare or pass by a jest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...and can hardly help thinking that the devil must be in him.' 1 Henry iv, 1. 6 Macaulay's Essays--Bacon, p. 270. 2 Lear, Hi, 4. 8 Ibid., p. 285. William H. Smith, Bacon and Shak., p. 6. 'Ibid., p. 285. Works 0/ Lord Bacon, vol. i, p. 116. And Hen Jonson says of Bacon: His language, where he ton!J spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. I need not cite many authorities to prove that the writer of the Shakespeare Plays was not only a great wit, but that his wit sometimes overmastered his judgment. Hudson says of Falstaff: I must add that, with Shallow and Silence (or his theme, Falstaff's wit fairly grows gigantic, and this, too, without any abatement of its frolicsome agility. The strain of humorous exaggeration with which he pursues the theme is indeed almost sublime. Yet in some of his reflections thereon, we have a clear though brief view of the profound philosopher underlying the profligate humorist and makesport, for he there discovers a breadth and sharpness of observation and a depth of practical sagacity such as might have placed him Shakespeare in the front rank of statesmen and sages.1 XIV. Great Aims. We know the grand objects Bacon kept continually before his mind's eye. The writer of the Plays declares, in sonnet exxv, that he had Laid great bases for eternity. What were they? What "great bases for eternity" had the Stratford man built or attempted to build? Francis Bacon wrote The New Atlantis, an attempt to show to what perfections of civilization developed mankind might attain in a new land, an island; and we find Shakespeare also planning an improved commonwealth upon another island--the island that was the scene of The Tempest. And we find him borrowing therein from Montaigne. Gonzalo says in the play: Had I plantation of th...
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Book. 10mo; G+; dark blue spines with gilt text; republished; originally published in 1888 by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; 2 volumes; no jackets; cloths show modest rubbing wear to exteriors; ex-library sticker to spines; slight sticker residue to front boards; rubbed corners; tight bindings; sturdy boards; text block exterior edges have mild toning; ex-library markings to exterior tail edges; slight pencil writing to feps; ex-library label to rear endpapers; pouch to rear pastedowns; other slight ex-library markings to title pages; frontispiece to each volume; illustrated; ex-library stamp to p 49 to vol. 1 and p 549 to vol. 2; interior pages clean; pp 998. 1350926. FP New Rockville Stock.
