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Show All Ages Poetic For my part, 1 can call no age absolutely ab-solutely unpoetic; bow should It be so i since there ure always children to i whom the acorns and the swallow's eggs are a wonder, always those hu-; hu-; man passions and fatalities through j which Garrlck as Hamlet in bob wig and knee breeches moved his audience more than some have, since done in i velvet tunic and plume? ... To !, be quite fair toward the ages, a little ugliness as well as beauty must be allowed to each of them, a little Implicit Im-plicit poetry even to those which echoed loudest with servile, pompous, and trivial prose. George Eliot. |