_a mind reflecting ages past_. "These words occur in the first lines of a laudatory poem on Shakespeare printed in the second folio (1632). The poem is signed 'J. M. S.' and was attributed by Coleridge to 'John Milton, Student.' See his 'Lectures on Shakespeare' (ed. T. Ashe), pp. 129-130." Waller-Glover, IV, 411. P. 36. _All corners_, etc. "Cymbeline." iii. 4, 39. _nodded to him_. "Midsummer Night's Dream," iii, I, 177. _his so potent art_. "Tempest," v, i, 50. _When he conceived of a character_, etc. Cf. Maurice Morgann, "On the Character of Falstaff": "But it was not enough for Shakespeare to have formed his characters with the most perfect truth and coherence; it was further necessary that he should possess a wonderful facility of compressing, as it were, his own spirit into these images, and of giving alternate animation to the forms. This was not to be done _from without_; he must have _felt_ every varied situation, and have spoken thro' the organ he had formed. Such an intuitive comprehension of things and such a facility must unite to produce a Shakespeare." (Nichol Smith: "Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare," p. 247, n.) _subject to the same skyey influences_. Cf. "Measure for Measure," iii, I, 9: "servile to all the skyey influences." _his frequent haunts_. Cf. "Comus," 314: "my daily walks and ancient neighborhood." P. 37. _coheres semblably together_. Cf. 2 "Henry IV," v, i, 72: "to see the semblable coherence." _It has been ingeniously remarked_, by Coleridge, "Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton," p. 116: "The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture.... Here, by introducing a single happy epithet, 'crying,' a complete picture is presented to the mind, and in the production of such pictures the power of genius consists." _me and thy crying self_. "Tempest," i, 2, 132. _What! man_. "Macbeth," iv, 3, 208. _Rosencrans_. The early editions consistently misspell this name Rosencraus. _Man delights not me_. "Hamlet," ii, 2, 321. _a combination and a form_. "Hamlet," iii, 4, 60. P. 39. _There is a willow_, etc. See "Hamlet," iv, 7, 167: "There is a willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream." _Now this is an instance_, etc. Hazlitt elsewhere ascribes this observation to Lamb. See p. 83, n. _He's speaking now_. "Antony and Cleopatra," i, 5, 24. _It is my birthday_. Ibid., iii, 13, 185. P. 41. _nigh sphered in heaven_. Collins's "Ode on the Poetical Character." _to make society_. "Macbeth," iii, 1, 42. P. 42. _with a little act_. "Othello," iii, 3, 328. P. 43. _while rage_. "Troilus and Cressida," i, 3, 52. _in their untroubled elements_, etc. Cf. Wordsworth's "Excursion," VI, 763-766: "That glorious star In its untroubled element will shine As now it shines, when we are laid in earth And safe from all our sorrows."