The Project Gutenberg eBook, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859Author: VariousRelease Date: March 28, 2004 [eBook #11751] [Date last updated: August 27, 2005]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 3, NO. 20, JUNE, 1859***E-text prepared by Joshua Hutchinson, Tonya Allen, and Project Gutenberg Distributed ProofreadersTHE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.VOL. III.—JUNE, 1859.—NO. XX.SHAKSPEARE'S ART. "Yet must I not give Nature all; thy Art, My gentle SHAKSPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion."—Ben Jonson.Whoever would learn to think naturally, clearly, logically, and to express himself intelligibly and earnestly, let him give hisdays and nights to WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. His ear will thus accustom itself to forms of phrase whose only mannerismis occasioned by the fulness of thought and the directness of expression; and he will not easily, through the habits whicheither his understanding or his ear will acquire, fall into the fluent cadences of that sort of writing in which words are usedwithout ...
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