astralis

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We differ, because we think that sense is not all that we have a right to expect from Shakspeare, that it is, indeed, merely the body in which his genius creates a soul of meaning, nay, oftentimes a double one, exoteric and esoteric, the spiritus astralis and the anima caelestis.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859