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Nathaniel Holmes, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books Literary Criticism~~Shakespeare The-Authorship-of-Shakespeare~~Nathaniel-Holmes General Books LLC Pur… More...

Nathaniel Holmes, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books Literary Criticism~~Shakespeare The-Authorship-of-Shakespeare~~Nathaniel-Holmes General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: All that which is past, says Bacon, " is as a dream; and he that hopes or depends upon time coming, dreams waking." And Poesy, we remember, was " the dream of knowledge," and "was thought to be somewhat inspired with divine rapture; which dreams likewise present." And thus speaks Imogen in the play: ? " Imo. I hope I dream; For so I thought I was a cave-keeper, And cook to honest creatures; but 'tis not so: 'T was but a bolt of nothing, shot of nothing, Which the brain makes of fumes. Our very eyes Are sometimes like our judgments blind ...... The dream 's here still: even when I wake, it is Without me, as within me: not imagin'd, felt." Cymb., Act IV. Sc. 2. 4. CUPID AND NEMESIS. In Bacon's discussion of the Fables of Cupid and Nemesis, is to be found the whole philosophical foundation of the " Romeo and Juliet." One main object of the play was, to exhibit as in a model, under the dramatic form of artistic creation, the essential nature and character of love, and that Juliet that was " the perfect model of eternity," as being the executive beneficence of the creative power; for, says he, " love is nothing but goodness put in motion or applied," or again, " the original and unique force that constitutes and fashions all things out of matter, it being. next to God, the cause of causes, itself without cause "; ' or, as a more modern philosopher states it, love is " the essence of God," and ' the idealism of Jesus " is but " a crude statement of the fact, that all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself"; the Platonic and Christian love, or Milton's " Bright effluence of bright essence increate "; 1 lot. of J 2 Wisd. of the Ancienti, Works (Bostonf, XIII. 123. t Emerson's Essays, I. 183, 281. and the same tha...<