Excerpt from Versiones Homeri Anglicae Inter Se Comparatae

The Gentleman Usher, are perhaps superior to his strage dies. De comoedia All Fools in Retrospective Review, vol. V., hoc indicium legimus: The characters in general are well sustained; the dialogue is spirited; and the incidents interesting and agreeable; added to which the versification is rich and musical, and many passages of considerable poetical me rit are scattered over it. The talents of Chapman nowhere appear to so great advantage. Magno videmus studio flagrantem notatem nostram ad tempus illud, quo Elisabetha regina flo ruit, perscrutandum, quod mirari non licet, nam ubi primum in Shaksperium inquiri a doctis viris coeptum est, fieri non potuit, quin, ut toti illi aetati adferretur lux, laboraretur. Hazlittus in Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth He, indeed, inquit, overlooks and commands t he admiration of posterity, but he does it from the table land of the age in which he lived. Iie towered above his fellows in shape and gesture proudly eminent, but he was one of a race of giants, the tallest, the strongest, the most graceful and beautiful of them; but it was a common and a noble brood. Ac profecto illis praeclaris ingeniis, quae una cum Shaksperio' effecerunt, ut aetas illa lit'terarum Anglicarum vere aurea vocari debeat, Chapmanus adnume randus est. Emersonus huius nostri temporis scriptor bonae motae in libro suo, English Traits appellate hunc in °mo dum lectorem interrogat:, How came such men as King Alfred and Roger Bacon, William of lvykeham, Walter Eu leigh, Philip Sidney, Isaac Arewton, pvilliam Shakespeare, George Chapman, Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here? Videmus ergo ab hoc viro Chapmano sedem inter Shaksperium et Baconem honoratissimo loco concessam esse. Quibus ex viris illustribus Emersonus de inde hoc quaerit: a: W'hat food they ate, what nursing, school and exercises they had, which resulted in this mother wit, delicacy of thought, and robust wisdom? Alium denique lo cum ex eodem libro repetitum ubi attulero, de Chapmano satis dictum fore puto: How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through before we can be filled, laught.

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