Our English Homer

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Excerpt from Our English Homer: Or Shakespeare Historically ConsideredAll 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.