51/53 Already he had marked the things he liked in Donne, and they were savage enough. However, you might place beside them passages of the purest poetry in Shakespeare. All faces--Greek, Levantine, Turkish, English--would have looked much the same in that darkness. At length the columns and the Temples whiten, yellow, turn rose; and the Pyramids and St.Peter's arise, and at last sluggish St.Paul's looms up. Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation. |