. St. Nicholas [serial]. stage, produced playsof an astonishing quality and unequaled fidelityto nature. Thus, hardly aware of what they were doing, loir,.] WILL SHAKESPEARE, STAR OF POETS 487 they laid and perfected the foundations of a greatnational dramatic literature second to none, involume or splendor, to be found anywhere in theworld. Some of them scarcely knew at times wherethe morrow should find its bread; and some ofthem ran through every art and throve at none;some of them were always in debt; some wereoften in prison. A wonderful company of peculiarly gifted were greater than their
. St. Nicholas [serial]. stage, produced playsof an astonishing quality and unequaled fidelityto nature. Thus, hardly aware of what they were doing, loir,.] WILL SHAKESPEARE, STAR OF POETS 487 they laid and perfected the foundations of a greatnational dramatic literature second to none, involume or splendor, to be found anywhere in theworld. Some of them scarcely knew at times wherethe morrow should find its bread; and some ofthem ran through every art and throve at none;some of them were always in debt; some wereoften in prison. A wonderful company of peculiarly gifted were greater than their accomplishment; for hisachievements and genius are immeasurably great. Some of Wills fellows grew famous; and somebecame very near great; but some went out inthe darkness, the dreams they dreamed notprophecies, but longings wild and vain. But Wills dreams came true, which he dreamedas a boy on the hills of W^arwickshire. Crownedwith laurel and bay, and with the nations accla-mations, he did what manv have dreamed of do-. ANNE HATHAWAY S COTTAGE. men! wanderers, improvident, shiftless and thrift-less, but covered with glory forever. A curious,talented fellowship of vision-creating minds, whoroam in fancy forever around the Ivory Gate ofDreams. But, you say, what has this to do with WillShakespeare ? All I have written is writ of Will was but one of this wonderful them he fought for recognition; with themhe watched and waited; and with them, too, inhis time, he wandered hungry through the streetsof London; nothing otherwise, but that his geniuswas greater than theirs. Hence his achievements ing, but very few have done: he went back toclose his days in prosperity and honor in his 1)oy-hoods home, whence he had fled, twenty-six yearsbefore, fugitive from disgrace. He soon had emerged from obscurity, and by1592 was justly praised as a poet of highest ex-cellence; his one hundred and forty-two sonnetshad wide circulation in manuscript years beforethey s
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