...spoke out what he thought, careless of giving offence. " Triumph, my Britain! than hast ONE to shew To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe, He was not of an age, but for all time." That should have been his epitaph, and not the quaint rhymes we here see beneath the...

...come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast on« to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. Ho was not cars, or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joy'd to wear the dressing...

...tomb ; And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not for an age, but for all time." &c. &c. &c. " Entirely posthumous," quotha ! Why, Shakspeare was as...

...comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, To whom...forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm. A little nearer Spenser; to make room For Shakespeare in your three-fold four-fold tomb: To lodge all...

...or since did from their ashes come. Trinmph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, To whom all soenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for...forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm. A little nearer Spenser; to make room For Shakespeare in your three-fold four-fold tomb: To lodge all...

...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not...in their prime, When like Apollo he came forth to warme Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme ! Nature her selfe was proud of his designes, And joy'd...

...eulogium, and he felt that he was uttering sober truth in saying, with reference to Shakespeare, — " Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, To whom...owe ! He was not of an age, but for all time ! " And the almost unanimous assent of successive generations, for more than two centuries, has, in a wonderful...

...comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom...scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but of all time, And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm...

...sober truth in saying, with reference to Shakespeare,— "Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to Bhow, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe ! He was not of an age, but for all time !" And the almost unanimous assent of successive generations, for more than two centuries, has, in a wonderful...

...whispered him the truth that Shakespeare needed no art beyond the reflection of his own harmonised mind in his poetry: " Triumph, my Britain, thou hast...came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to chann ! Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ; ^Vhich...