Great Writers Cervantes Scott Milton Virgil Montaigne Shakespere
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They are loved chiefly, however, because the young \'irgil is seen in them, as in the palaestra of his art before he had put on his singing-robes, with that sweet teachableness, that yielding and hospitable mind, out of which was to come, to bless him and the world, the wide receptivity of his spirit, the rich assimilation, the accumulated power of imagination in the race, already held in the grasp of his genius like Ithuriel's spear. Rome and Athens, the light and majesty of the world, were ma...rried in his blood; and though he bore as yet only the rustic reed, here in the adolescence of genius was the form of him who was to hand down by descent the antique vigour to the modem world. Virgil became the great reconciler in liis own inherited world, the great mediator between an- tiquity and Christendom; he maintained in poetry, equally with Plato in philosophy, the unbroken contin- uity of the human spirit; but before entering on these great offices and as preliminary to them he was first of all and by instinct a great lover — a greater lover than Dante — and here in the first friendly affections of the senses melting with the w^orld, of the heart blending with other lives, of the mind breatliing the universal hope of all, is this lover in the bud — he, who was to be the greatest lover in all the world of all things beautiful, strong, tender, pitiful, sad, and fated.
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