Was the Shakespeare After All a Myth (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1330177746 ISBN 13 : 9781330177747

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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It is not even referred to in later works upon the subject. Like a faint meteor it had shone upon the ordinary sky and waslost in the superior light of the permanent constellations ;was regarded as something unworthy the consideration of the acutest observer of the golden patines alluded to by Lorenzo in one of the greatest dramas credited to a genius which did not concieve them ;was not a sufficient genius for such conceptions. If any one had reflected upon theB ook of bot)ks he would have found therein a question which in itself dissipates the myth of Shakespeare. How knoweth this man letters, having never learned. This truth was ignored by the unreflecting in the case of the play-actor, and manager, transmuted into an unsurpassed and unsurpassable genius by blind imagination and credulity, and finally idolatry. The iron rule There is no royal road to learning has never had an exception. The Warwickshire butcher-boy, adventurer and thrifty money-getter, could not even with the transcendent gift of inventive perspicacity have mastered the knowledge, art, science, philosophy and language displayed in his poetry and plays. Such a genius would be more than a miracle, because human after all, without a transcendent miracle greater than any which the world has yet witnessed, and without the personal exertion of divine powers by divinity a sheer impossibility. J. W. DE P. 0h, Shakespeare Immortal bard Mighty geniusS wan of Avon thou unapproachable! A re there no more fish, no more krakens in that wondrous sea from which thou wert taken Shall there be no more cakes and ale. [as poor Artemus Ward said, X. B. This is Sarkassum ]H ow prone theE nglish people are to kill off their great men !T hey first raise them up to the loftiest pinnacle of fame, and then, like the eagle with the tortoise, or the monkey which mounts the highest tree with his cocoa-nut, they dash t
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330177746
• ISBN 13: 9781330177747
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 42
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