Shakespeare, . . .

Lord of the mighty spell: around him press

Spirits and fairy forms. He, ruling wide

His visionary world, bids terror fill

The shivering breast, or softer pity thrill

E’en to the inmost heart.

W. L. Bowles (1762-1850). “Monody on the Death of Dr. Warton,” 1801. Poems, 1803, vol. ii. pp. 141-2.


Is there no bard of heavenly power possess’d,