The Art of History, With Special Reference to the Historians of the Nineteenth Century
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Bacon's own practice in his Henry VII gives reason to suppose that he was thinking not merely of authentic speeches, such "witty answers and lively off-hand remarks " as Plutarch was wont to record for the sake of the light which they threw on the characters of his heroes, but also the longer speeches, partly based on actual say- ings, partly invented for the sake of edification, which were included in the recognised stock-in- trade of historians until such moralising went out of fashion. Carly...le's interjected remarks in Crom- well's speeches are perhaps a late manifestation of the same thing ; a few generations earlier they might have become other speeches tagged on to some actor in the drama. Everyone recognised such speeches as not strictly true, but in the hands of writers who knew how and when to use them and were careful to observe the character of the supposed speaker even in their inventions, they made the general impression clearer. Abused by inferior writers, the employment of them became immeasurably tiresome and consequently dis- credited, but at their best they were harmless 12 THE ART OF HISTORY fictions introduced into a kind of art which is in itself closely akin to drama and romance and has given much to both, not least through these same fictions.
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Bacon's own practice in his Henry VII gives reason to suppose that he was thinking not merely of authentic speeches, such "witty answers and lively off-hand remarks " as Plutarch was wont to record for the sake of the light which they threw on the characters of his heroes, but also the longer speeches, partly based on actual say- ings, partly invented for the sake of edification, which were included in the recognised stock-in- trade of historians until such moralising went out of fashion. Carly...le's interjected remarks in Crom- well's speeches are perhaps a late manifestation of the same thing ; a few generations earlier they might have become other speeches tagged on to some actor in the drama. Everyone recognised such speeches as not strictly true, but in the hands of writers who knew how and when to use them and were careful to observe the character of the supposed speaker even in their inventions, they made the general impression clearer. Abused by inferior writers, the employment of them became immeasurably tiresome and consequently dis- credited, but at their best they were harmless 12 THE ART OF HISTORY fictions introduced into a kind of art which is in itself closely akin to drama and romance and has given much to both, not least through these same fictions.
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