Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Miss Delia Bacon” in chapter 22 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises:
...trayed, more fully than that of any of his predecessors, the airy palace in which the great enchanter dwelt.
How far the occupant of the palace still remains also a thing of air, we must leave for Miss Delia Bacon 's school of heretics to determine.
For myself, I prefer to believe, with Andrew Lang, that Shakespeare's plays and poems were written by Shakespeare.
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