Thus while I wondering pause o'er Shakspeare's page, I mark in visions of delight the sage, High o'er the wrecks of man who stands sublime; A column in the melancholy waste, (Its cities humbled and its glories past) Majestic 'mid the solitude of time. DR. WOLCOT. Shakspeare is the Homer of the English; he is altogether national.— In spite of philosophy and new views, the change of manners and the progress of knowledge, he reigns in the heart of the literature of his country. VILLEMAIN. |