. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. d lasts. These things may be in themselves verypaltry, but they cease to be paltry when we know that bythem millions of human beings are strangely affected. And here let me take the opportunity of saying, what 12 SHAKSPERE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. has been often said before, but which cannot be too oftenrepeated, that Shaksperes chief excellence lies in this, thathe has not drawn mere lay-figures, but human, breathing,complex men and women—not Romans, not Greeks, butsimply men; that he has never obtruded mere partycreeds, but given us true religion
. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. d lasts. These things may be in themselves verypaltry, but they cease to be paltry when we know that bythem millions of human beings are strangely affected. And here let me take the opportunity of saying, what 12 SHAKSPERE AND HIS BIRTHPLACE. has been often said before, but which cannot be too oftenrepeated, that Shaksperes chief excellence lies in this, thathe has not drawn mere lay-figures, but human, breathing,complex men and women—not Romans, not Greeks, butsimply men; that he has never obtruded mere partycreeds, but given us true religion; never painted merefinite systems, but true perennial human sympathy; andthat he has never forgotten the broad principle, thatwhether Saxon or Celt, Jew or Gentile, we are all bro-thers; that, in fact, to use his own words, he has ever held the mirror up to nature, reflecting there all formsand shapes, but reflecting them with the charity that looksupon a brothers shortcomings in pity, knowing well howutterly impossible it is to judge The Room in which he was Born.
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