Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Shakespere His Birthplace and Its Neighborhood
Though springing from an excellent feeling, it is a mistaken wish to see with the physical eye the world's great men. The least part of a great man is his materia presence. It is better for us each to draw our own ideal Of Shakspere; to picture his face so calm and happy and gentle, as his friends declare his Spirit to have been; yet not unseared by misfortune and chastened by the divine religion of sorrow. It is better as it is. We know not for certain even his likeness, or his form. The earth-dress falls away, the worthless mortal coil is shuf?ed Off, and only what is pure and noble, the essence of all that is great in the man, remains for evermore as a precious birthright to all the world.
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