A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

part in this mild, blissful shining of the ‘general assembly,’ the great

congregation of the skies. Thus the past is aglow with the unwritten, the nameless. The leaders, sons of fame, conspicuous in lustre, eminent in place; these are the few, whose great individuality burns with distinct, starry light through the dark of ages. Such stars, without the starry way, would not teach us ...