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It is very curious, very artificial, and not worth while to analyse
at length: I leave it to the reader. But before I turn my back on
Shakespeare, I should like to quote a passage, for my own pleasure,
and for a very model of every technical art:
But in the wind and tempest of her frown,
W. P. V.{9} F. (st) (ow)
Distinction with a loud and powerful fan,
W.P. F. (st) (ow) L.
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
W. P. F. L.
And what hath mass and matter by itself
W. F. L. M. A.
Lies rich in virtue and unmingled.' {10}
V. L. M.
From these delicate and choice writers I turned with some curiosity
to a player of the big drum--Macaulay. I had in hand the two-
volume edition, and I opened at the beginning of the second volume.
Here was what I read:
'The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the
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