. William Shakespere : a biography. man tluit liath no music iu Limself,Xor is not inovd with concord of hwoet 8ouu>U,Is fit for treasons, stiiitagenis, uud epoilM, we hold, upon the same principle, that the man who in this lilual way ofthe person that Shakspere writes of, was a dt man to root up Siiaksperesmulberry-tree; pull down the house which had some associations with the moreancient structure in which the author of some of the greatest pioductions of thehuman intellect had lived and died ; and feel not the sli<;htcst roeret in ahandonii;.the gardens which the matchless man
. William Shakespere : a biography. man tluit liath no music iu Limself,Xor is not inovd with concord of hwoet 8ouu>U,Is fit for treasons, stiiitagenis, uud epoilM, we hold, upon the same principle, that the man who in this lilual way ofthe person that Shakspere writes of, was a dt man to root up Siiaksperesmulberry-tree; pull down the house which had some associations with the moreancient structure in which the author of some of the greatest pioductions of thehuman intellect had lived and died ; and feel not the sli<;htcst roeret in ahandonii;.the gardens which the matchless man had cultivated. It is a singular fact that no drawings or prints exist of New Place as c-hakspere leftit, or at any period before the new house was built by Sir Hugh Clopton. It is a moiesingular fact that although Garrick had been there only fourteen years before thedestruction, visiting the place with a feeling of veneration that might have led himand others to preserve some memorial of it, there is no trace whatever existing of. what New Place was before 17-^7. The wood-cut here given is a fac-simile of nnen-ravinf^, first published by Malone, and subsequently appended to the variorumeditions, which is thus described :— New Place, from a drawing in the niargin ofan Ancient Survey, made by order of Sir George Carew (aftci-wards Baron Carew ofClopton, and Earl of Totnes), and found at Clopton, near Stratford-upon-Avon, in1786. A person resident at Stratford at the period mentioned as tliat of thefindins of the drawing—Poet Jordan, as he was called—an ignorant person, butready enough to impose upon antiquarian credulity—an instrument perhaps in thehands of others—he sent to Malone this drawing of New Place from tlie margin otan ancient survey. If it was a survey found at Clopton, it was a survey of property in the possession of the Earl of Totness, who was a contemporaryLife. 2 K ^^7 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE : of Shakspere. New Place, as Malone knew, had been ou
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