Bacon and Shakspere: Proof that William Shakspere Could Not Write. The Sonnets Written by Francis Bacon to the Earl of Essex and His Bride, A.D. 1590; Bacon Identified as the Concealed Poet Ignoto, A.D. 1589-1600Brentano Bros., 1886 - 48 pages |
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... authorship . But this only makes the tangle worse , which began with Shakspere's ostensible authorship ; and the last despairing words of the astute un- raveller are : " All is supposition , the mystery is insoluble . " " onlie begetter ...
... authorship . But this only makes the tangle worse , which began with Shakspere's ostensible authorship ; and the last despairing words of the astute un- raveller are : " All is supposition , the mystery is insoluble . " " onlie begetter ...
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... authorship : 66 Why is my verse so barren of new pride , So far from variation or quick change ? Why with the time do I not glance aside , To new - found methods and to compounds strange ? Why write I still all one , ever the same , And ...
... authorship : 66 Why is my verse so barren of new pride , So far from variation or quick change ? Why with the time do I not glance aside , To new - found methods and to compounds strange ? Why write I still all one , ever the same , And ...
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... authorship of the " Sonnets . " The following line might seem to indicate a writer past the age of 29 : " Although she knows my days are past the best . " But in 1599 , when Shakspere was only 35 , this very verse was published as his ...
... authorship of the " Sonnets . " The following line might seem to indicate a writer past the age of 29 : " Although she knows my days are past the best . " But in 1599 , when Shakspere was only 35 , this very verse was published as his ...
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... authorship . It has been boldly alleged by some that Bacon was no poet . Such , however , was not the judgment of his biographer , the late James Spedding . Before he could have heard it claimed that Shakspere did not write the plays he ...
... authorship . It has been boldly alleged by some that Bacon was no poet . Such , however , was not the judgment of his biographer , the late James Spedding . Before he could have heard it claimed that Shakspere did not write the plays he ...
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... authorship of this poem is , whether Shakspere or " Ignoto " wrote it . The next poem printed in the " Helicon " is a part of No. xxi of the " Passionate Pilgrim . " Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes AS THE CONCEALED ...
... authorship of this poem is , whether Shakspere or " Ignoto " wrote it . The next poem printed in the " Helicon " is a part of No. xxi of the " Passionate Pilgrim . " Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes AS THE CONCEALED ...
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attempt to form autograph Bacon and Shakspere Bacon wrote Bacon's authorship Barnfield brief version CONCEALED POET IGNOTO couplet dedicated deed doth Earl of Essex edition of 1614 editor England's Helicon Faery Queen father Finis flocks feed Folio Francis Bacon George Peele Greville Halliwell-Phillipps hath heart HENRY BURR illiterate letter Lord Treasurer Burleigh love is lost Love's man-at-arms Marlowe Masques merry mortgage name Shaksper noto Nymph's Reply parallels Passionate Pilgrim past the best person pieces play writer praise proof of Bacon's published Queen's principal secretary receives a brand ren[e]ging Richard Barnfield Richard Grant White says secret authorship Shakspere's name Sheepheards Shepherd sign his name signature signed Ig signed Ignoto Sir Walter Raleigh smooth song song Sonnet 42 Spenser's spere's Stratford subscribed Ignoto sweet tavern sign thee Thomas Weelkes thou trustees is dated verses version of 1599 White's Shak widow Sidney William Shakspere write written xviii youth رہا
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