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Title: Shakespeare's England
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e mightiest mind—as vast and limitless in thepower to comprehend as to express—that everwore the garment of mortality. Once again there is a sound of organ music,very low and soft, in Stratford Church, and thedim light, broken by the richly stained win-dows, streams across the dusky chancel, fillingthe still air with opal haze and flooding thosegray gravestones with its mellow radiance.Not a word is spoken; but, at intervals, therustle of the leaves is audible in a sighingwind. What visions are these that suddenlyfill the region! What royal faces of monarchs,proud with power, or pallid with anguish!what swreet, imperial women, gleeful withhappy youth and love, or staring and rigid intearless woe! what warriors, with serpent dia-dems, defiant of death and hell! The mourn-ful eyes of Hamlet; the wild countenance ofLear; Ariel with his harp, and Prospero withhis wand! Here is no death! All these, andmore, are immortal shapes; and he that madethem so, although his mortal part be but a
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