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iC JOANNES WELLERBY , LITERARUM QILESIVIT GLORIAM , VIDET DEI . " p . 209 214 . There is only one fault that we can find with this book ; and it . has left us not much disposed to find that . The author seems to us to have formed a conception of the youth of Shakspeare , which ,
with all its truth and beauty , has yet too complete a correspondence with the characteristics of his maturity ; which presents ^ in fact , the unfolding germs of all the qualities by which he was afterwards distinguished . In this respect , the picture fails of correspondence with the course of nature . ' The boy is father
of the man / but the boy is not , altogether , the man in little . His faculties bear not the same proportions . In men of genius it continually happens , that some of the most striking qualities of their maturity were wholly latent in early life . There is always , no Jdoubt , the germ , but it sometimes waits for the stimulating influences of a comparatively late period to excite it to vital action . The acorn is not the miniature of an oak . When it shoots up ,
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manfully the quarter staff of logic , and wield it for St . John ' s , come who would into the r ing . * We want our man / said he to me , ' your son hath failed us in the hour of need . Madam , he hath been foully beaten in the schools by one he might have swallowed , with due exercise /
* " I rated him , told him I was poor , and he knew it . He was stung , and threw himself upon rny neck , and wept . Twelve days have passed since , and only three rainy ones . I hear he has been seen upon the knoll yonder , but hither he hath not come . I trust he knows at last the value of time , and I shall be heartily glad to see him after this accession of knowledge . Twelve days , it is true , are rather a chink than a gap in time ; yet , O gentle sir ! they are that chink which makes the vase quite valueless . There are light words which may never be shaken off the mind they fall on . My child , who was hurt by me , will not let me see the marks . "
* u Lady ! " said I , " none are left upon him . Be comforted ! thou shalt see him this hour . All that thy God hath not taken is yet thine . "
She looked at me earnestly , and would have then asked something , but her voice failed her . There was no agony , no motion , save in the lips and cheeks . Being the widow of one who fought under Hawkins , she remembered his courage and sustained the shock , and said calmly , " God ' s will be done ! I pray that he find me as worthy as he iindeth me willing to join them . " 6
" Now , in her unearthly thoughts , she had led her only son to the bosom of her husband ; and in her spirit ( which often is permitted to pass the gates of death with holy love ) she left them both with their Creator . ' The curate of the village sent those who should bring home the body ; and some days afterwards he came unto me , beseeching me to write the epitaph . Being no friend to stone-cutter ' charges , I entered not into biography , but wrote these few words :
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Examination of Shakspeare . 55
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/55/
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