Quote #43

I never quite despair and I read Shakspeare - indeed I shall I think never read any other Book much [...] I am very near Agreeing with Hazlit that Shakspeare is enough for us.

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  1. He was not of an age, but for all time!
  2. He has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing.
  3. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
  4. At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare posessed so enormously - …
  5. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit.
  6. Shakespeare led a life of Allegory; his works are the comments on it.
  7. But Shakespear's Magick could not copy'd be, Within that Circle none durst walk but he.
  8. Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's; Therefore on him no speech!

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