Apophthegms FROM 7005 THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE. "NOT FOR AN AGE, BUT FOR ALL TIME.' BY CHARLOTTE LYNDON. LONDON: SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL. PORTRAITURE OF SHAKESPEARE. THERE are three powers-Wit, which discovers partial likeness hidden amidst general diversity; Subtlety, which discovers the diversity concealed in general apparent sameness; and Profundity, which discovers an essential unity under all the semblance of difference. Give to a subtle man Fancy, and he is a Wit. To a deep man Imagination, and he is a Philosopher. Add again pleasurable sensibility in the three-fold form of Sympathy, with the interesting in morals, the impressive in form, and the harmonious in sounds, and you have a Poet. But combine all, Wit, Subtlety, and Fancy, with Profundity, Imagination, and Moral and Physical Susceptibility of the pleasurable, and let the object be man universal, and behold A SHAKESPEARE! |