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Article AN UNKNOWN WATERING-PLACE. ← Page 5 of 5 Article SHAKSPERE, HIS FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES. Page 1 of 7 →
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An Unknown Watering-Place.
neighbourhood , ancl thought the Aview from Hall Walk the loveliest of its kind lie had ever seen . Tho climate here is so mild and equable , and the town so sheltered by the hills from the north and cast winds , that it is a wonder it has not long ere this been noted as a health resort . To our thinking , it is quite capable of being made as popular as it is certainly as beautiful as Torquay , for nature has done everything , and man but -little as yet , in modern times at least , for one of the most picturesque places in all England .
Shakspere, His Friends And Acquaintances.
SHAKSPERE , HIS FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES .
AN HISTORICAL GOSSIP . BY BKO . GEORGE MABKHAM XWEDDELL , Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society , London ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary
Club , of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society , etc ., etc . TT is most marvellous , Allien one comes to look at it , to find hoAv little the world really -k- knows of many of its greatest benefactors . That much had to be done towards civilization before men could hand down to posterity any record of the lives and deaths
of their fellows , or of any remarkable natural phenomena that mi ght have eome under their notice , can easily be conceived . Cuneiform inscriptions on Persian or Babylonish terra-cotta , hieroglyphics on Egyptian tombs , and Runic characters in our OAVU or other countries , all speak plainly of a time when the human intellect had in some measure succeeded in bringing rude matter into due form . When the leaves of tho papyrus , ancl skins of goats , sheep , and calves Avere found capable of being converted into materials on
which men could hand down to posterity a mitten scroll , something more than tho first step had been taken on the way to the pedestals of Wisdom , Strength , and Beauty . Many of the mythical characters of antiquity , as I take it , originated in vain attempts to chronicle the true actions of real personages by that unreliable , but then only available , method of oral tradition . Thus , for instance , old Bacchus , the original cultivator of the vine , becomes gradually transformed into tho god of drunken revelry ; and each minstrel and story-teller of the past depicted the dim original In such flaming colours as accorded
best with their OAVU unbridled fancy . But that the greatest genius that the Avorld seems yet to have produced , should have been allowed to leave the earth with less record of his life and actions than is frequently inscribed over the pompous tombs of thousands of Avealthy Nobodies , does certainly seem , to my poor judgment , not only most remarkable , but pitiful in the extreme . For , as Steevens has remarked , alas ! with too much truth : " All that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakspere is—that he was born at Stratford-upon-Avon ; married , and had children there ; Avent to London , wherehe commenced actor , and wrote poems and plays ; returned to Stratford , made his Avill , died , and Avas buried . "
And this occurred , not in the dark ages of Avhich we hear so much , but at a timo Avhen he was surrounded b y bright , though lesser lights , it is true , movin" in every orbit of our unequalled English literature ! As my literary friend , the late John Bolton Rogerson , has truly sun " : " How shall we speak of him whose cherisli'd name Is link'd to glorious aud undying fame —• Poet of every clime , aud class , and age , The worshiijp'd wonder of the world ' s wide stage !
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Unknown Watering-Place.
neighbourhood , ancl thought the Aview from Hall Walk the loveliest of its kind lie had ever seen . Tho climate here is so mild and equable , and the town so sheltered by the hills from the north and cast winds , that it is a wonder it has not long ere this been noted as a health resort . To our thinking , it is quite capable of being made as popular as it is certainly as beautiful as Torquay , for nature has done everything , and man but -little as yet , in modern times at least , for one of the most picturesque places in all England .
Shakspere, His Friends And Acquaintances.
SHAKSPERE , HIS FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES .
AN HISTORICAL GOSSIP . BY BKO . GEORGE MABKHAM XWEDDELL , Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society , London ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary
Club , of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society , etc ., etc . TT is most marvellous , Allien one comes to look at it , to find hoAv little the world really -k- knows of many of its greatest benefactors . That much had to be done towards civilization before men could hand down to posterity any record of the lives and deaths
of their fellows , or of any remarkable natural phenomena that mi ght have eome under their notice , can easily be conceived . Cuneiform inscriptions on Persian or Babylonish terra-cotta , hieroglyphics on Egyptian tombs , and Runic characters in our OAVU or other countries , all speak plainly of a time when the human intellect had in some measure succeeded in bringing rude matter into due form . When the leaves of tho papyrus , ancl skins of goats , sheep , and calves Avere found capable of being converted into materials on
which men could hand down to posterity a mitten scroll , something more than tho first step had been taken on the way to the pedestals of Wisdom , Strength , and Beauty . Many of the mythical characters of antiquity , as I take it , originated in vain attempts to chronicle the true actions of real personages by that unreliable , but then only available , method of oral tradition . Thus , for instance , old Bacchus , the original cultivator of the vine , becomes gradually transformed into tho god of drunken revelry ; and each minstrel and story-teller of the past depicted the dim original In such flaming colours as accorded
best with their OAVU unbridled fancy . But that the greatest genius that the Avorld seems yet to have produced , should have been allowed to leave the earth with less record of his life and actions than is frequently inscribed over the pompous tombs of thousands of Avealthy Nobodies , does certainly seem , to my poor judgment , not only most remarkable , but pitiful in the extreme . For , as Steevens has remarked , alas ! with too much truth : " All that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakspere is—that he was born at Stratford-upon-Avon ; married , and had children there ; Avent to London , wherehe commenced actor , and wrote poems and plays ; returned to Stratford , made his Avill , died , and Avas buried . "
And this occurred , not in the dark ages of Avhich we hear so much , but at a timo Avhen he was surrounded b y bright , though lesser lights , it is true , movin" in every orbit of our unequalled English literature ! As my literary friend , the late John Bolton Rogerson , has truly sun " : " How shall we speak of him whose cherisli'd name Is link'd to glorious aud undying fame —• Poet of every clime , aud class , and age , The worshiijp'd wonder of the world ' s wide stage !