Dr. John Dee: Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer (Classic Reprint)

The subject of this sketch cannot claim to rank among the worlds successes. He was, indeed, one of those who court failure father than success ;who occupy themselves instinctively with the things which are too hard for them rather than with those they could accomplish with ease and dignity. Dr. Dee slot was cast, moreover, in troubled and baffling circumstances. He suffered much from his enemies, and still more from his false friends. Popular prejudice and popular ignorance, which were busy with his name in his lifetime, continued to pursue it long after his death. Butler sH vdibras contains a vicious caricature of him ;and writers more serious and restrained than Butler have done less than justice to his character and work, content to accept the floating tradition that blackened the one and dismissed the other as negligible !: Yet it is difficult to see how even the most hostile of them could have read the story of his life (especially those parts of it which he 1O nthe other hand, it has been contended with some show of reason that Prospero inT heT empest is Shakespeare sidealised portrait of Dee.
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