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Excerpt from Journal of the Bacon Society: Containing Also the First Annual Report; August, 1887 In speaking of qualities attributable to the poet, possessed by Bacon, I would, desire to refer to One not very usually, I must admit, associated in the minds Of men with poetry, but which I believe to be an invariable attribute of every poet who has really commanded, apart from the fashions and phantasies of the hour, the sympathies of the English speaking races; I mean a sort of divine common sense, a sweet reasonableness, if I may employ the words of an eminent critic, himself a poet. This quality I cannot more particularly define in better language than in the words of Macaulay as applied to Bacon In the temper Of Bacon, he says, there was a singular union of audacity and sobriety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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