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Had the passage been in verse, where the change might have damaged the rhythm, had it been one of those ecstasies of Shakspearian imagination, to tamper with which because we could not understand it would be Bottom-like presumption, one of those tempests of passion where every word reeks hot and sulphurous, like a thunderstone new-fallen, in any of these cases we should have agreed with Mr.

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