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44 Examination of Shakspeare . the audience , rising vp ; 3 Be men !—Fat Jaques will ask no more !
GRAND POPULAR CHORUS . Give o ' er your airs ' of fierce sky-rockets , They hide no fact of emptying pockets ; Be honest men , your hearts unbar , And we'll work on ! the audience vociferously . Huzza ! huzza !
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Most truly saith the author of e Imaginary Conversations / Mr . Walter Savage Landor ., in his preface to this delightful volume , that there is little of real history , excepting in romances . Some of these are strictly true to nature ; while histories in general give a distorted view of her , and rarely a faithful record either of momentous or of common events . ' Sundry professed biographers of Shakspeare might be exhibited , if needful , in confirmation of the negative portion of the above proposition , while its positive averment is exemplified in the work before us . Your true poet is
evermore the best historian of all that is finest and grandest in human nature ; that is to say , of all that most merits the chronicling . When the documentary evidence of the plodding annalist fails him , he is brought to a dead stand ; while he whose documents are in the inexhaustible treasure-chest of his own soul , goes onward , with a living impulse , in the delineation of the character which he has studied , appreciated , and felt . The poet is nature ' s logician . Like the mere historical critic , he traces causes and
consequences , but those of the former are rough and material ; he investigates the crumbling wall , and from the appearances of the dilapidated and ponderous ruin , extracts the date of erections and repairs ; while the latter feels the connexion of (subtler essences , and , as the air of heaven breathes upon his face , tells whence it cometh , and whither it goeth . ' Greatly are they mistaken , who suppose logic to be the only , or always the best instrument for the attainment of truth . Many there be who belong to the wisest of mankind , and yet handle that
instru-? Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare , Euseby Treen , Joseph Carnaby , and Silas Gough , Clerk , before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy , Knight , touching Deer-stealing , on the 19 th day of September , in the year of Grace 1582 . Now first published from original papers . To which is added , a Conference of Master Edmund Spencer , a Gentleman of note , with the Earl of Essex , touching the State of Ireland , ad . 1595 . London : Saunders and Otley , 1834 .
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EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE TOUCHING DEER . STEALING . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/44/
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