New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-17
"Iuo. Nay, s.av little:
Were you but riding forth to air yourself
Such parting were too petly.r Look here love
This diamond was my mothers take u, heart!
But keep Il till you WOO another wife,
When ImOpep il dead -

When Imogen ls dead
We find several other passages marked for quo
tation or notice: very nice and just discrimins-
tion between Sylvia and Julia, the two ladies of The
Two Gentlemen of Verona; fine recognition OF
the noble traits of Hermionc in the Winters Tale
TO whom is awarded "ndomitabe fOrtitude, a
grand pride in her conscious innocence, which has
all the exating effect of martyrdom;" woManly
"setting DOM" of Beatrice which, on the whole
iswe deserved, although il shows hardly sufficient
appreciation of the latent tenderness and generos-
ity of "my Lady Disdsiu;" ard a skillful presenta
toD, appropriately rich in verbal cooring, of the
perplexingly complex traits which make Cleopatra
at once so bad and go alluriDg. Bu. We have room
only to bring forward the following summing up of
Juliet's character, and Of textua question which
Mrs. Palmer dextercusy connects with it. OF
Juliet herself she rays
In nothing has Shakespeare proved tis wondrous
skin more clearly than i'll this creation OF human be-
ing in whom sense asserts itself paramount
soninceed, whose Only manifestations Of intellect are
the inspirations CT exalted sentiment, sensuously
cited eloquence, AID yet who is endowed with such
exquisite purity as distinguished from the false teach
ings Of convention al modesty that Eve herself not
sacred from an inputation Of grOssness.
The textual question is that one in the passage
so celebrated in Shakespearan criticism-'' that
runswsy's eyes may wink" Mrs. Palmer sees no
difficulty in this-the original readng-and thinks
that "Iunaway's' refers to Juliet. She says:
The term "run-away." in her application of il 10
herself affects us with peculiar tenderness could any,
thing be more touching IN Ms pretty payfuness more
Juet-like than for Ter thus to lken herself unto
naughty child which has stolen away from s parents
10 do the very thing, of all others in the word, that
in again comparirg herself to an impatient child
that hath robes and may not wear them" II the
original word be "run-aways, plural, the same idea
VII spply equally to Romeo ard herself; it would be
even moie natural for her TO couple, and name alike
their identical trar sgr,ssions.
Spread thy close curtain, ys-pcrformins Nigh,
That runaway . eyes NAV wink aud komeo
Leap to these arms. EEtaiEd u. and gsssen ~"
The formidable stumbling block to emends.crs has
consisted in the supposed necessity Of substituting for
"run-away's" me,apboriesl word TO which these
two participles can equally apply; but when We
slider the fact that the discovery by her cousin Tybs
before must have constituted the absorbing topic ef
conversation all day among the members of Juiet's
own famy-every word OF which has blaached her
check and filed her soul with quick alarnls-does Il
No. NJ reasonable that the mmcjiHte reference for
the uLiak d Of sloDi exis only in her mind l.
not critically sustained 6gure unnatural 10 the
excited state I imagination which inspires the whole
passsgc--and voiy un-Sbakespcare an besides
Az 'or the "Gureen, why shoali that refer 10 the
.huttirY of soneisdy's or something's eyes, when
kon go iuysibity depends only on whst she IS pray
INK for the coming Of Iight ist not lar more probs-
be that the direct sIntiVGs o boIh part eip'es sot