Montaigne and Shakspere

by J. M. Robertson

[157] B. iii, Chap. 13.

[158] "In the midst of our compassion, we feel within I know not what bitter sweet touch of malign pleasure in seeing others suffer." (Comp. La Rochefoucauld, Pensée 104.)

[159] B. iii, Chap. 1.

[160] i, Chap. 38.

[161] L'Angleterre au Seizième Siècle, p. 133.

[162] This seems to be the ideal implied in the criticisms even of Mr. Lowell and Mr. Dowden.

[163] Hamlet: ein Tendenzdrama Sheakspere's [sic throughout book] gegen die skeptische und cosmopolitische Weltanschanung des Michael de Montaigne, von G. F. Stedefeld, Kreisgerichtsrath, Berlin. 1871.

[164] B. i, Chap. 26.

[165] It is not disputed that the plot existed beforehand in Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra; and there was probably an intermediate drama.

[166] Edit. Firmin-Didot, i, 590.