3, 1890Ĭowards die many times before their deaths James Russell Lowell, Literary Essays, Vol. Have arrived at the full development of his powers at the moment when the material in which he was to work - that wonderful composite called English, theīest result of the confusion of tongues - was in its freshest perfection." "It may be reckoned one of the rarest pieces of good-luck that ever fell to the share of a race, that (as was true of Shakespeare) its most rhythmic genius, its acutest intellect, its profoundest imagination, and its healthiest understanding should have been combined in one man, and that he should John Jay Chapman, A Glance Toward Shakespeare He cannot refrain from throwing a dash of connubial romance into Cleopatra." His heroines of mature years, as for instance, Hermione (in A Winter's Tale), and Queen Katherine, have the same quality. Woman rather than different women: they are the Heaven, and are like different aspects of the same Juliet, Perdita seem all to be spirits of the same His young heroines, Miranda, Cordelia, Imogen,
"Shakespeare reserves all his adoration for his heroines.
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