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2070sCenturies: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd centuryDecades: 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s 2060s - 2070s - 2080s 2090s 2100s 2110s 2120s Years: 2070[?] 2071[?] 2072[?] 2073[?] 2074[?] 2075[?] 2076 2077[?] 2078[?] 2079[?] Events and Trends the plays of Shakespeare where reality.html">reality is least felt were the most
suppose it was my instinctive liking for reality that made the great
vital in their very ghosts and witches. There I found a world
the poor little affair that I had only known a small obscure corner of,
citizen in it as where I actually lived. There I found joy and sorrow
itself, and not for some other thing.html">thing. Then, I suppose it was the
friendly. I think I had a native love.html">love.html">love of laughing, which was fostered in
flattered by my intimacy with Cervantes; but whether this was so or not,
Shakespeare where the alliance of the tragic and the comic was closest.
only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am sure that without it I
Histories, where I used to spend so much of my leisure, with such a sense
that he must somehow like my being.html">being in the joke of it all, and that in his
him, and be as one of his creations.
It was the time of life with me when a boy begins to be in love with the
to fall in love with the ladies of that Shakespeare-world where I lived
ideals here, or whether my ideals acquired merit because of their
enchanting loveliness; but upon the whole I must have preferred them in
always much better dressed there; I was vastly handsomer; I was not
with here.
That friend of mine, the printer whom I have mentioned, was one with me
of double being I had in those two worlds. We took the book into the
we had finished our work, and on the shining Sundays of the warm, late
heaps of fallen leaves; so that much of the poetry is mixed for me with a
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