The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-15

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 SAaksnpsase an1 Jensen have heea ae scsibsd as the censRe ot galaxy ot con ssmpuraxy hghts. beanmons, FietcAer Selden, Spenser, Raleigh and oshers What sceoe nus this Group have mad< in the " M@maid,s eaaAered tur s wil comhsnr TAis day hardly kno~s any. thlng approximating b n. EterAry culscre is nos more diffased. and tAs illussysces oees are noe e few and fa' heeween- These kindred snah wixA. drew from the hasy world with iss dis tracsions and diversionS and gave ex. preston to the soul's oatpoursngs Shakespeare vas the only one wAo could successfully cope witk Bea.
 Ioassn vas fully equipped wisA sa in. exnanstble store of classic lore. fos hs was close and shorccgh ssndeqi, He read and seemed b retasn evex7thisK He easdened hts mind witA more thAn ordinary mea could by sreA, efsss. and yet he was at all tunes prepared to use his knosiedge ~i,h telling elfect Soy moving but certain. he only vas ke equal ot his mose mentally agile. hxt ks, erud,te rival Shakespeare TheY ,n- seliecsual tournaments ~ere like thkse os "a Spanish great galieon and an English man-of-sar. IoSsou (tike tb< formes wAs built higher tn learning, sol,d. eu, slow in his pesSosmances Shakespeare hke the Enehsh man-of gar. l<ssef ln bulk bus hghter in saihng. could turn with all tides. tack abou, and take al vantage oi all winds b, the qa,ckness of his wit and invention"
 ,nscn's vas truly clAssic m,nd. He took the aneients for hls models and the york oi his lite was based upon them. and ID his thinking. He arranged anu classified ideas as they wese related to each other. and to the whole which the, formed. H. style resulted necessAriiy from this He vas rather . philosopher than poet ,n his dramas. Hts char acsers were to him ideas, sentiments, passions. and unerringy and esnstansl, did he make them play their part Herein IS his grea, difference from Shakespeare Ionson is mechanical. building up his characters according to A preconc~ived plan, while Shakespeare begins, no, knowing where he sill end e,vtng his inventive genius and im- aginAtion sole cs.sAe of hls pen.
 Ben onson vas fighter fearless. vigorous and generous. he gave and re ee,ved hard blows. Entering into the sensual indulgence of the tune. he yes tefoeiy attacked that which he oid not yas'it,, s;sd ot which he himself vas not guilty. lie formed tor himself A nes and independent course Tn the world of letters, and he defended n ~th all the force ot has great, strong azure His rugged body typste1 hss :Isns, and ~hiie the iormer sank under the ravaSes of d,s- ease, presipitAted ny s.. o~n esoesses, the latter renamed clear and active to the last
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