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Excerpt from Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Shakspeare: At Boston, Mass., April 23, 1864
There was one intellectual attribute peculiar to him - original, striking, and of surpassing -force; the ideal conception so well described by Dugald Stewart in his Philosophy of the Mind, a power not only of forming ideal creations, but of bringing persons and places of distant ages before the mind's eye, as though they were present. Walter Scott, in his inimitable Waverley Novels, manifested, though in a less degree, this marvellous faculty. On this ao count, the learned Dr. Arnold, in his Lectures on His tory, has observed, that in the Fortunes of Nigel he presents the most life-like pictures of King James that have been drawn by any historian. The view of Rome in Julius Caesar, and the isle of Prospero in the Tempest, might be offered in illustration, if time would allow.
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