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" Tis like making a question concerning the paper on which a king's message is written. Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise, the others conceivably. A good reader can in a sort... "
Englische Studien - Page 521
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1880 - 506 pages
...disciples. And yet one must say of him, as Emerson, in a memorable sentence, does of Shakespere, " A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence ; but not into Shakespere's. We are still out of doors." The outward features of the Dean's career, his place of birth,...
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The Indicator: A Literary Periodical Conducted by Students of ..., Volumes 1-3

1848 - 936 pages
...Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for him, and he enters into their labors." " A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence ; but not into Shakespeare's. We are are still out of doors. For executive faculty, for creation, Shakespeare is unique"...
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Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 5

Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...category of eminent authors as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise ; the others, conceivably. A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence ; but not into Shakspeare's. We are still out of doors. For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique....
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The North British Review, Volume 47

1867 - 672 pages
...category of eminent authors as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise ; the others conceivably. A good reader can in a sort nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence ; but not into Shakespeare's. He is still out of doors.' V. The extracts we have given within the limited compass...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise ; the others, conceivably. A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence ; but not into Shakespeare's. We are still out of doors. For executive faculty, for creation, Shakespeare is unique....
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...of eminent axithors, as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise ; the others, conceivably. A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence ; but not into Shakespeare's. We are still out of doors. For executive faculty, 'for creation, Shakespeare is unique....
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Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 pages
...and eligibility to free, arouse, dilate."* What shall be said of Shakspere's radiation through art of the ultimate truths of conscience and of conduct...attenuate Shakspere to a theory. He is careful that we * Whitman. Democratic Vistas, p. 67. shall not thus lose our true reward ; " The secrets of Nature...
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Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

Edward Dowden - 1879 - 464 pages
...and eligibility to free, arouse, dilate." * What shall be said of Shakspere's radiation through art of the ultimate truths of conscience and of conduct...shall not thus lose our true reward ; " The secrets of * Whitman. Democratic Vistas, p. 67Nature have not more gift in taciturnity." * Shakspere does not...
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Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity: Greek and Latin Antiquity as Presented ...

Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 520 pages
...; ... no veins, no curiosities : ... no mannerist is he," adding, with rare felicity of expression, "a good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence ; but not into Shakespeare's. We are still out of doors." (" representative Men.") Schiller protests against the notion...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise ; the others, conceivably. A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's. We are still out of doors. For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique....
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