(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue.
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
Come like shadows, so depart!
Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.
Shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Chequer'd shadow.
Like Hezekiah's, backward runs
The shadow of my days.
Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ;.
And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.
SHAKESPEARE
This Booke
When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke
Fresh to all Ages.
This was Shakespeare's form;
Who walked in every path of human life,
Felt every passion ; and to all mankind
Doth now, will ever, that experience yield
Which his own genius only could acquire.
Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.
Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie
A little nearer Spenser, to make room
For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.
There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time.
E. B. Browning—A Vision of Poets.
"With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked bis heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
Robert Browning—House. X.
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| text = <poem>If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But
there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we
have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious
intellect; there is more virtue in it than he himself is aware of.
Carlyle—Essays. Characteristics of Shakespeare.
Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;
And Shakespeare weeps with me.
Matthias Claudius—A Comparison.
Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
Coleridge—Biographia LUeraria. Ch. XV.
Borrowed from a Greek monk who applied
it to a Patriarch of Constantinople.
When great poets sing,
Into the night new constellations spring,
With music in the air that dulls the craft
Of rhetoric. So when Shakespeare sang or
laughed
The world with long, sweet Alpine echoes thrilled
Voiceless to scholars' tongues no muse had filled
With melody divine.
C. P. Cranch—Shakespeare.
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Dryden—The Tempest. Prologue.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most
prize were never quoted until within this century.
Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Quotation
and Originality.
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
Emerson—M ay Day and Other Pieces. Solution. L. 39.
