...which one wonders not to have been cited among the rather inadequate arguments to prove that Lord Bacon was the real Shakespeare,--we have the key, so far as there is any, for the change from the boy Whittier , with his commonplace early rhymes, into the man who reached the sublime anthem of My soul and I. He also was hurried into sublimity. In the case of Holmes, it is a very common remark that h...