Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, May 1850

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, May 1850

I am almost frighted at my own temerity; and when I estimate the fame and the strength of those that maintain the contrary opinion, I am ready to sink down in reverential silence, as neas withdrew from the defense of Troy when he saw Neptune shaking the wall, and Juno heading the besiegers. But the enthusiastic study of Shakspeare was then just beginning. How many antiquarians, book-worms and hypercritics have since toiled and quibbled over him! how many philosophers have deeply meditated him! how many ponderous volumes have been written upon him? How many great actors have played him? How many nations have heard and read him? Surely this mine, however deep and fruitful, must long since have yielded all its treasures. If, indeed, the shadows of mighty names could subdue the inquiring spirit of this age to any degree of fear or reverence, the Shakspeare student might now be content to receive, with implicit confidence, the creed which has been written. But whilst the works of Nature are daily undergoing new investigations, and receiving new illustrations, it is fit that those works which of all human productions most resemble themthe works of Shakspeareshould be subjected to a similar scrutiny. And so they have been, and with results worthy of the days of telegraphs and locomotives. A German critic, named Ulrici, has recently made a discovery which as far surpasses all former Shaksperian discoveries, as the voyage of Columbus surpassed the voyages of those navigators who before him had timorously hugged the shore. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57748
Author: Various
Release Date: Aug 22, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Graham, George R., 1813-1894