Baconiana (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Better it is mongst fidlers to be chiefe, Then at plaiers trencher beg reliefe. But ist not strange this mimick apes should prize Unhappy Schollers at a hireling rate. Vile world, that lifts them up to hye degree, And treades us downe in groveling misery. England affordes those glorious vagabonds, That carried earst their fardels on their backes, Coursers to ride on through the gazing streetcs, Sooping it in their glaring Satten sutes, And Pages to attend their maisterships: With mouthing words that better wits have framed." Whether Marlowe ultimately became a " leaden i-pout " or one of the better wits who framed words for the stagers' "mouthing" is elsewhere discussed. " SHAKESPEARE'S BOOKS." THIS book somewhat narrowly escapes meeting a distinct want, inasmuch as the subject whereof it treats has as yet received neither the amount of, nor sort of attention which its importance deserves. It affords evidence of much reading and research, and is almost completely free from those truculent amenities of language which so disfigure, not to say disgrace, the writings of too many of the "Shakespearean" school. The work is prefaced by a table of contents and a Synopsis very useful to the general reader, and is furnished as well with a good index. The subject matter of Mr. Anders' book has already been partly covered by the pretentious work of Paul Stapfer in 1880, whose title, Shakespeare and "Classical "A Dissertation on Shakespeare's Reading and the Immediate Sources of His Works," by H. R. D. Anders, B.A. (Univ. of the Cape of Good Hope, Ph.D. Berlin Univ.). Berlin, Publisher and printer, George Reimer, 1904, 1o/-. Antiquity," is so miserably supported by its contents. That work is divided into 25 chapters, the fourth chapter of which alon...