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An essay on the plays or characters of Shakespeare must
generally take the form either of a critique or panegyric. As
for the former, considering the great, arrogant and puissant
hosts that have gone before me, it would seem as if there
times wonder if one man ought to criticize the actions of an
other. To some at least it may seem incongruous for one
erring being to judge the actions of anotner. But we are giv
en reason which ought to imply a right of judgment, then
it may be more seeming for man to sit as a puny court of one,
in continuous session and pass judgment upon all worldly ac
tions letting the Lord Almighty judge the whole. A second
thought makes me think it a part of the Divine plan, a fac
tor in human progress that these competitive judgments
should be formed, collected and jostled, until like a package
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l^oirjeo ai)ct Juliette.
could be no stone of criticism left for me unturned. I some-