Francis Bacon and the Muse of Tragedy (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Francis Bacon and the Muse of Tragedy In 1653 Gruter finally gave to the world, in a book printed at Amsterdam and entitled Francisci Daconi de Verulamio Scripta in Naturali et Universali Philosophia, nineteen of the manuscripts with which he had been intrusted by Boswell. In an "Address to the Reader," prefixed to the volume, he tells us that he and Boswell had had many long, confidential interviews on the subject, in consequence of which, as it appears, some of the papers in the collection were, for reasons not given, withheld from the public. The exact statement is as follows: - All these hitherto unpublished writings you owe, dear reader, to the most noble William Boswell, to whom they were devised by Bacon himself, together with others of a political and moral nature, which are now, by gift of the deceased, in my private keeping, and which are not to be printed for a long time to come. That Gruter regarded these reserved papers, whatever they were, as important, and that he was compelled against his will to keep them back in the dark, we know beyond a doubt; for on March 20, 1655, he wrote to Sir William Rawley, Bacon´s old chaplain and amanuensis in London, a letter in which he expressed great impatience because he was not permitted to publish them. He said: - At present I will restrain my impatient desires, in the hope of seeing some day those things which, now committed to faithful privacy, await the time when they may safely see the light and not be stifled in their birth. What was the nature of that secret? What was discovered among Bacon´s private papers after his death, which his executors were unwilling, but which Isaac Gruter, the last-known custodian of the papers, was impatient to make public? 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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