SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

1. But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
   Within that circle none durst walk but he.—DRYDEN, The Tempest
   

2. He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.—DRYDEN, Essay of Dramatic Poesy
   

3. How Shakespeare hated the plain men! He knew too much about them. He had to live too closely to them when he was sidestepping the Puritans, to whom he was a public enemy.—O. ST. J. GOGARTY, As I Was Going Down Sackville St.
   

4. A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.—JEFFERSON
   

5. Reader, look,
   Not at his picture, but his book.—BEN JONSON, Coinment on Shakespeare's Portrait
   

6. Soul of the age!
   The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
   My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by
   Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
   A little further to make thee a room.—BEN JONSON, To the Memory. of Shakespeare
   

7. He was not of an age but for all time.—BEN JONSON, To the Memory of Shakespeare
   

8. I loved the man [Shakespeare] and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.—BEN JONSON, Timber
   

9. The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.—BEN JONSON, Timber
   

10. Shakespeare is incarnated, uncompromising feudalism.—WALT WHITMAN