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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...the poet was a miracle, and may be worshiped--and Stratford may well be his shrine. 119 THE SO-CALLED SHAKESPEAREAN MYTH. By F. R., Barrie. FRANC1S RYE, of Barrie, Ontario, Canada. In the Canadian Mont/zly for July, . 1879. An answer to Mr. Mor an's articles in A letons' oumal. g Mr. ATKINSON is an ardent Baconian. His writings on the subject consist principally of short articles in various periodicals, which will be found noted hereafter. It would be absurd to expect to find' the same variety in Bacon's philosophical writings as in the plays, where we have philosophy and poetry combined, together with wit, humor, and every kind of character and turn of sentiment. But here is Ben Jonson's account of Bacon, Bacon's prose, says Judge Holmes, is Shakespearian poetry, and Shakespeare's poetry is Baconian prose. Jonson says: 'There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare, or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No men-ber of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him without loss. He commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him was lest he should make an end.' Here, then, we have related, from one most capable of judging, those very qualities of mind we should expect to find in the writer of the plays, but which Shakespeare was never known to have exhibited at any time, or in any place; and we have not a scrap of his...

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