This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855. Excerpt: ... and at last, at the erisis of his agony, and while earth, and hell, and heaven were all darkening around him, eried out, Why hast thou forsaken me f (a fearful question, where you dare t lay the emphasis on any one, but must on all the words), eant but fuel more tender and awful emotions as they eontemplate this outlying and unaekwledged type of the Crueified, suspended among the erags of the Caueasian wilderness. SHAKESPEARE.-A LECTURE. If a elergyman, thirty years ago, had anuneed a leeture on Shakspeare, he might, as a postseript, have anuneed the resignation of his eharge, if t the abandonment of his offiee. Times are w ehanged, and men are ehanged along with them. The late Dr. Hamilton of Leeds, one of the most pious and learned elergymen in England, has left, in his Nugae Literariae, a general paper on Shakspeare, and was never, so far as I kw, ehallenged thereanent. And if you ask me one reason of this eurious ehange, I answer, it is the long-eontinued presenee of the spirit of Shakspeare, in all its geniality, breadth, and power, in the midst of our soeiety and literature. He is among us like an unseen ghost, eoloring our language, eontrolling our impressions, if t our thoughts, swaying our imaginations, sweetening our tempers, refining our tastes, purifying our manners, and effeeting all this by the simple magie of his genius, and through a medium--that of dramatie writing and representation--originally the humblest, and t yet the highest, form in whieh poetry and passion have ehosen to exhibit themselves. Waiving, at present, the eonsideration of Shakspeare in his form--the dramatist, let us look at him w This having been originally delivered as a leeture, we have deeided that it should retain the shape. Shakspeare; a...