This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.
Charles LambShakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Charles LambShall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
Charles Lamb