Shakespeare’s glowing soul,

Where mightiness and meekness met.

Ibid., p. 341, “Hymn to the Moon.”


Kind Shakespeare, our recording angel.

T. L. Beddoes (1803-1849). “Lines written in Switzerland.” Poems, 1851, vol. i. p. 215.


Kinder all earth hath grown since genial Shakespeare sung!

Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton (1805-1873). “The Souls of Books,” i. l. 21. Works, 1853, vol. iii. p. 282.