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the same time as Ralegh and Shakespeare was Richard Ho

on, two years afte

made Master of the Temple. The controversies in which he there found himself involved induced him to retire when he w

It was divided into eight parts; and in the first one, before he had got far into it,

; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as

ge on the Deity which portrays faithfully for us

soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without

r of Shakespeare's prose there remains for us but little. Whenever he rose to eloquence he clothed himself in verse as with an inevitable attribute, but on the rare o

ion, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging f

how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the

When it is remembered that it was out of his friendship for Bassanio that Antonio entered into his bond wit

forfeit, and since, in paying it, it is impossible I should live, all debts are cleared between you and me if I might

e an instant appeal to the sweet heart of Portia: "O

written some notable work of prose we may be sure it would even hav

er a thousand years. Perhaps printing may confer a greater stability on present languages;

lovin

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