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Shakspeare perhaps exceeded in boldness, but his boldness is that of nature; for he makes the first efforts to set off human life, and shews it in strong colours. He did not, like many modern writers, separate the office of instruction from that of pleasing. He did not put the moral into an apologue, and the passion into an allegory: but, by giving the whole picture to the spectator, he afforded him the pleasure of viewing, and the utility of comparing.