The Death of Wallenstein. Act v. Sc. 1.
Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.[504:2]
Biog. Lit. Chap. xv.
A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.[504:3]
The Friend. Sec. i. Essay 8.
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.[504:4]
Ibid., No. 14.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.[505:1]
Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, p. 36. Delivered 1811-1812.