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which will be considered either as an instance of a good climax, or or the bathos, according as taste or ambition pi: lomlnatc in the heart of the reader. The words ..rum Peccati," are seen at

the north end; with banners, trophies, and similar emblems, ivangmg over tnt-m.

Very di (Parent from the associations to which Warwick- Castle and its church had given rise in our minds, were those that the sight of Stratford- upon-Avon excited; the birth-place of that all but immortal dramatist, who, for poetical genius, is de- servedly placed at the head of English writers. Whether, indeed, we consider Shakespeare as a poet, one of those uncommon beings, " rarinanies " in zurzite vasto," whose eye, according to his

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own admirable definition of the term,

' f in a fine phrenzy rolling, " Doth glance fromheav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; " And, as imagination bodies forth " The forms of things unknown, whole pen " Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing V ioi ill habitation and a name;

" v.hcthcr we consider him as " a man amongst men; 5 ' a nice anal} r zer of their minds, :i ponetra- erver of their impulses, and an accurate -.-.: r f their passions; whether we contem- ,v rev,;" inventnm fresh im;;ee-; paving I
 * )Ue. im *' i hausting worlds, and then creating

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