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When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes
First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ;
Each change of many-color'd life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd,
And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.

JOHNSON.

A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,

And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
Call'd into being scenes unknown before,

And, passing Nature's bounds, was something more.

SHAI

CHURCHILL

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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FIRST VOLUME.

ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.

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1. Portrait of Shakspeare. Frontispiece.

2. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy, from a Painting by Romney.

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3. Infant Shakspeare attended by Nature and the Passions.-Romney.

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4. The Monument of Shakspeare in Stratford Church. -Boydell.

5. Shakspeare between Poetry and Painting.-Banks.

THE TEMPEST.

6. Prospero and Miranda before the cell of Prospero. -Romney.

7. Prospero, Miranda, and Ariel.-Hamilton.

8. Prospero, Miranda, Caliban, and Ariel.-Fuseli.
9. Trinculo, Stephano, and Caliban.-Smirke.
10. Ferdinand and Miranda.-Hamilton.

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11. Prospero, Ferdinand, Miranda, Mask, &c.- Wright. 12. Ferdinand and Miranda playing at Chess.- Wheatley. 87

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.

13. Valentine, Proteus, Silvia, and Julia.- Angelica Kauffman.

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14. Valentine, Proteus, Silvia, and Julia.-Stothard.

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