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"Not enriches!" No grammar or rhetoric, but his own genius taught him that fine "variation" in the strain of his English. Look next at the boldness and reach of his fancy, and how pithily it expresses itself inthe aptest and most musical words: as, for instance, inthe sprite's boast that he can

or, in Ariel's song:—

So, the monster Caliban,—what a purely original creation! Yet, even he is obliged to speak poetically, for the author's mind is so full of rich fancies that they will come out: thus, Caliban says:—

Note, next, his power of imagination, enabling him to behold a scene, just as it must have been, and also to bring it before the reader. For instance, the picture of Macbeth, coming fresh from the murder of Duncan:—

"Macb. I've done the deed! Didst thou not hear a noise? Lady M. I heard the owl scream, and the crickets cry;— Did not you speak? Macb.When? Lady M.Now! Macb.As I descended?