Characters of Shakespear's Plays: Lectures on the English Poets (Classic Reprint)

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IT is observed by Mr. Pope, that If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespear. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains Of nature; it proceeded through nyptian i strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast Of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was Inspiration if indeed, he is not SO much an imitator, as an instrument of nature; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him.

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