. William Shakespere : a biography. e looks around, and may dream he is in a landwhere man has never disturbed the wild deer and the eagle. He looks at onetime upon Turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,And flat meads thatchd with stover, and he may say with the Water Poet, I thought myself in England is presently in the gorge of tlie mountains, and there are fancies awakeningin him which are to shape themselves not into description, but into the deli-neations of high passions which are to be created out of lofty moods of themind. In Edinburgh he meets his fellows. The probabilit
. William Shakespere : a biography. e looks around, and may dream he is in a landwhere man has never disturbed the wild deer and the eagle. He looks at onetime upon Turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,And flat meads thatchd with stover, and he may say with the Water Poet, I thought myself in England is presently in the gorge of tlie mountains, and there are fancies awakeningin him which are to shape themselves not into description, but into the deli-neations of high passions which are to be created out of lofty moods of themind. In Edinburgh he meets his fellows. The probability is that the Court • The snatch i>f nieliuly in Lear, in all likelihood part of an iMiglish song, will octiir to thereader: — Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd ? t Minstrelsy of tlie Scottish Border, vol. ii., p. .;8. ♦ Henry VIII., Act v. § Taylor tells peroral portions of his adventures in [ilain pi-ose: and we know nf no l>etler pu-hircof the fountry nnd its manners than liis simple descriptions furnish. r, t. :t\r^Ui [ ; is not tiiere, for it is the hunting season. Holyrood is a winter paUicc; andEdinburgh is not then a city particularly attractive to the Scottisli King, who liasnot forgotten the perils and indignities he has endured througli the inlluenceof the stern and uncompromising ministers of religion, who would have madethe temporal power wholly submissive to tlie spiritual. Ihe timid man hasconquered, but all his actions are there viewed with jealousy and malevolence ;and the English players may afiord him safer pleasures in other places thanwhere their unruliness and immodest behaviour are uncharitably denouncedduly from the pulpit. Shakspere may rest at Edinburgh a day or two; andthe impressions of that city will not easily be forgotten :—a town in wliich thecharacter of the architecture would seem to vie with the bold scenery in wiiicliit is phced, full of historical associations, the seat of Scottish learning andauthori
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