The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-03

words about the great actor who ha. just
fallen into that sleep that We call death.
Lawrence Barrett was my friend and I Was
Shskesnearc. to whose creations he
ave mesh and blood. He began
At the foundation of his profession
and rose until he stood next to his friend
next to me, who is regarded as the great
est tragedian of our time, next to Edwin
q success, because he honored himself and
added glory to the stage. He did not seek
for 0airS bv wandering to the thOughtiess,
the ignorant or the base. He gave the
drama in its highest and most serious
form. He summed the questionable; the
ual. the pathetic, the manly and the
tragic. He did not stoop to conquer-ha
scared. He was fitted for the stage. He
had q thoughtful face, . vibrant voice and
the pose of chivalry, and, besides, he had
patience, industry. courage and the genius
b Ba ssos . thoushtfnf Hamlet, an intense
Othello and the best Cassi1s of his century.
In the drama Of our human life all are act
ors and no one knows his part. In this
great play the scenes are shifted by unseen
forces and the commencement, plot and end
are still unknown-are still unguessed;;
One by one the players leave the stage and
Others take their places. There is no
pause-the play goes on. No prompter's
voice is heard and no one has clew as to
what the next scene is to be. Will this
drama have an end? VIII the curtain fall
at last? Will it rise again upon some other
still whispers YES Sadly bid my friend
farewell l admired the actor and loved
the man."
In this panegyric upon Shakespeare,
Colonel IngersoI said many pithy things.
Here are some of them:
PIrHY SAYINGS.
"Of Shakespeare's father we know
little. He was reputed for not going
to clvurch-this is good as far as it goes.
ssMost great men have had great
mothers. Most great women have had
great fathers. Most of the great are like
mountains, with the valley of ancestors
on one side and the depression of posterity
on the other.
when men are prosperous they are in
love with life. Famine and faith go to-
gether. In disaster and want the eye OF
man is fixed upon another world.
I'VE account for Shakespeare as we ac-
count for the highest mountain-thc great
est river. He was. Shakespeare never
goes to the unnatural, he never wrote
play in which wife's lover falls jealous of
her husband.
''The real sustains to the ideal the same
Ieiatlon tndL a SkCnc QOeS 10 u statue.
According TO the realist, the wax that
takes the impression is an artist. Is it
possible that Bacon left the best children
of his brain ON Shakespeare's doorstep and
kept the deformed ones at home?
'.The fact that Bacon did not claim to be
the author Of the plays proves that he was
not.
Suppose man left this epitaph on his
tombstone in his will: Here lies John
Smith. inventor of the dog-churp.' Is it
possible that he could have been the in
ventor of both the dog-churn and the loco
motive?
'.Shakspeare's best rises above Bacon's
best as palace rises above a beggar's hut.
All arts of the same parentage.
ut is not enough to say great things;
dramatic things must be done.
1.-THE greatest compliment ever paid to
woman: Eyes that do mislead the morn.'
There is the same difference between
and sculptor.
There is the difference between types
and characters that there is between
springs aud water-works.
Shakespeare has done more for woman
than all the other writer's of the world.
Shakespeare, the marbles of Greece, the
music of Wagner.
Shakespeare, if he taught at all, taught
by indirection.
Shakespeare added words to our lam
guage and taught US how to use it.
Nothing in this world is more difficult
than a good definition.
II do not think Shakespeare was a ply
stefan of his time. He knew too much.
There is nothing to show that he was
lawyer, or that he knew more law than any
intelligent man would after one SUIT.
And in regard to the question of pla-
giarism: 1t is not who owned the stone
and the quarry. 1t is who carved the
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