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Shakespeare’s Henry IV. If everything were lost that has ever been preserved to us of this kind of writing, the arts of poetry and rhetoric could be completely restored out of this one play.
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Shakespeare’s finest dramas are wanting here and there in facility: they are something more than they should be, and for that very reason indicate the great poet.
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Shakespeare is dangerous reading for budding talents: he compels them to reproduce him, and they fancy they are producing themselves.