Our English Homer: Or Shakespeare Historically Considered (Classic Reprint)

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All that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or that did from their ashes come.

Surely such a proposition must be strictly proved before reasonable people can believe it; surely the matter must always remain open to doubt until it is proved. And to the few, who trouble themselves with probabilities, it has been for many years a doubtful question while some have cut the knot by finding a more likely author in our great philosopher, Francis Bacon. Mean while the patient labour of skilful investigators has shown that certain well-known, Elizabethan dramatists were undoubtedly engaged in the composition of the plays, and that all that could be claimed either for Shakespeare or Bacon was a final revision of so material a kind as would constitute practical authorship.

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