. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. THIS 18 the med-itative, calm,contcmj>lativeface, and so wecall it lict andsensibility arcstrong in thepoelica


. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. THIS 18 the med-itative, calm,contcmj>lativeface, and so wecall it lict andsensibility arcstrong in thepoelical plulos-op h e r. Theforehead issmooth; theeyes raised, asif rellucliiig upon every person orthing wllhiu and without his rangeof vision. This is part of his nature,and lifes experiences have encour-aged rather than hindered its devel-opment. All of SliakspearcH char-acters say jiiHt what would seem tohc! natural and necessary if they werealive and talking to us; and this iswhatcouHtituteH thegeninsof Shaks-pciire—his creations, like the sca--nri, are fctr all tiiur.


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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade18, booksubjectbiography, bookyear1887