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cant bards. It has often been remarked as a singular coincidence, that the two poets who are thought to have surpassed all others in point of genius, should, while the whole world is filled with their renown, have left no traces of their individual existence. Homer lived and sang many ages before the first stone had been laid for the foundation of the Parthenon — his poems had been the admiration of the civilized world long before Nebuchadnezzar had overturned the kingdom of Judah, or Romulus had conceived the idea of building the city whose glory was to overshadow one-half of the earth. Shakespeare was born in the reign of the good Queen Bess, but three years after Bacon, and lived in an age of which we have the most ample memorials. Yet, the fate of the two men — apparently placed in such different circumstances — has been almost identical. As little is known of the English player as of the Grecian stroller. We only know that they left behind them productions which the gen<