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Cicero the Orator, and Hermogenes the Rhetorician,
besides his own books of Periods and Imitation, and the
like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham with their
lectures and writings almost deify Cicero and
Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were
studious, unto that delicate and polished kind of learning.
Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing
Echo: decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone ; and
the Echo answered in Greek, qne Asine. Then grew the
learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as
barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of
those times was rather towards copie than weight.
There in a page or so Bacon renders a detailed image of
the literary struggles and fashions of his day. Like his idea of
scientific methods, his idea of the literary scene is rooted in