Francis Bacon and his secret society - Grand Lodge of Colorado

196 FRANCIS BACON
13. Dramatic poesy and the art of stage-playiug.
14. Parabolic poetry; the use of symbols, emblems, hieroglyphics,
metaphors; the power of using analogies, etc.; fables,
parables, allegories.
Not one word does Bacon say about the prodigious increase in
the richness of language which had taken place during his own
life. As he wrote in the prime of his manhood, so he writes in
the complete edition of the Advancement of Learning, published
simultaneously with the Shakespeare plays in 1623. Ending
where he began, and disregarding the mass of splendid literature
which filled up all numbers and surpassed the finest efforts of
Greece and Rome, he calmly sets down philosophic grammar
and the art of using beautiful language as " wanting."