. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2164.—Selden No. 79,—Vol. II. 2165 —Gallery of toe Arundel Marbles. 241 242 OLD ENGLAND. [Book VI, The groups of portraits of eminent men (Figs. 2159, 2174) thatappear among our engravings, may be viewed as representing some-tidns more than the mere fanciful linking together of so many con-temporaries; they may suggest—not infelicitously—the peculiarties of sympathy, intercourse, and friendship, that, directly or indi-rectly, bound the whole together. Of the great men of the latterpart o
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2164.—Selden No. 79,—Vol. II. 2165 —Gallery of toe Arundel Marbles. 241 242 OLD ENGLAND. [Book VI, The groups of portraits of eminent men (Figs. 2159, 2174) thatappear among our engravings, may be viewed as representing some-tidns more than the mere fanciful linking together of so many con-temporaries; they may suggest—not infelicitously—the peculiarties of sympathy, intercourse, and friendship, that, directly or indi-rectly, bound the whole together. Of the great men of the latterpart of the sixteenth and early part of the seventeenth centuries, allthose who were living at any one time—poets, dramatists, philoso-phers, historians, men of art or science—appear to have been per-sonally familiar with each other. Defective as our knowledge ofthis matter must be in relation to a period in whichShakspere couldlive, and leave behind him so little materials for a history of his in-dividual life and character, we can yet trace the links of this intel-lectual chain with tolerable
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