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Show which the Reaso makes of the materia world. Shakspeare possesse the power o subordinating nature for the purposes o expression, beyond all poets. His imperia muse tosses the creation like a bauble fro han to hand, to embod an capriciou shade of thought that is uppermos mind Th in hi remotest spaces of natur ar visited, and the farthest sundered thing are brought together, by a subtile spiritua connexion. We are made aware that mag nitude of material things is merely relative and all objects shrink and expand to serv the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dye of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of hi beloved; time, which keeps her from him is his chesf; the suspicion she has awa kened, is her ornament The ornament of beauty is Suspect A crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air His passion is not the fruit of chance swells, as h speaks, t a city, o i a state No, it was builded far from accident 1t suffers not in smiling pomp, nor fall Under the brow of thralling discontent It fears not policy, that heretic That works on leases of short numbered hours But all alone stands hugely politic 6 |