And him He make a poet.
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emories of a lifetime spent m the theatre were swarming also^Gonzalo’s speech out of Montaigne, by Isaiah, is indebted as well toprimitive-society speeches not only in Mucedorus but in the twenty-year-old Selimus. Nor is the style Olympian, outside Prospero. Iwould illustrate it— admitting its variety, and ignoring character--with the line about “turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep.”The beauty of this I account for thus, one thought the gorgeous“turfy” was finished, just a piece of diction, and then the related,even more actively visual and physical “nibbling” brings “turfy”back to life and incidentally completes the presentation of a pastoral 84
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