...at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion, That Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters...

...at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion, That Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters...

...at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion that Shakspere is the chief of all poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...left record of himself in the way of literature." Hegarding a man possessed of such a seeing eye, and taking such a sweep with it, it is almost impossible...

...scholars, our inventor of machinery, our makers of canals and railroads, and that man whom Carlyle calls ' the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...left record of himself in the way of literature, the finest human figure that Nature has hitherto seen fit to make of our widely diffused Teutonic clay.'...

...at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion, That Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters...

...at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion, that Shakspeare is the chief of all poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...has left record of himself in the way of literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters...

...at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion, That Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters...

...Stratford; that he gained an honorable position as actor, play-writer, and shareholder in the Blackfriars and afterward in the Globe Theatre ; enjoyed the favor...Milton, Dryden, Pope, and, in our own day, Coleridge, De Quincy, Carlyle, and Emerson have led the chorus of his praise. The revolution which his genius...

...at large, is slowly pointing to the conclusion, That Shakspeare is the chijf of all Poets hitherto; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world,...has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters...

...by Isaac Casaubon, the immortal Hooker, and Blaise Pascal. It was in this century that Shakespeare, the myriad-minded man, the greatest intellect who...in our recorded world has left record of himself in literature, the poet of the human race, lived and wrote. It was now the strain of Milton's song was...