Even Holland And Spain Have Been Positively,

In The Plays Of Shakespeare Man Appears As He Is, Made Up Of A Crowd Of Passions Which Contend For The Mastery Over Him, And Govern Him In Turn.

He Had Done That Which Could Never Be Forgiven; He Was In The Grasp Of One Who Never Forgave.

We Must Succumb To The General Influence Of The Times. No Man Can Be Of The Tenth Century, If He Would; Be Must Be A Man Of The Nineteenth Century.

I Shall Cheerfully Bear The Reproach Of Having Descended Below The Dignity Of History If I Can Succeed In Placing Before The English Of The Nineteenth Century A True Picture Of The Life Of Their Ancestors.

Those Who Seem To Load The Public Taste Are, In General, Merely Outrunning It In The Direction Which It Is Spontaneously Pursuing.