I
suppose it is because Shakespeare is universal, and, in fact, has no
_manner_."--_Coleridge's Tabletalk_, 214.
[128] Pheidias said of one of his pupils that he had an inspired
thumb, because the modelling-clay yielded to its careless sweep a
grace of curve which it refused to the utmost pains of others.
[129] The best instance I remember is in the _Frogs_, where Bacchus
pleads his inexperience at the oar, and says he is
[Greek: apeiros, athalattotos, asalaminios,]
which might be rendered,
Unskilled, unsea-soned, and un-Salamised.
[130] So Euripides (copied by Theocritus, Id. xxvii.):--
[Greek: Pentheus d' opos mae penthos eisoisei domois] (_Bacchae_,
363.)
[Greek: _Esophronaesen ouk echousa sophronein_]. (_Hippol_., 1037.)
So Calderon: "Y apenas llega, cuando llega a penas."
[131] I have taken the first passage in point that occurred to my
memory. It may not be Shakespeare's, though probably his. The
question of authorship is, I think, settled, so far as criticism can
do it, in Mr. Grant White's admirable essay appended to the Second
Part of Henry VI.
[132] Shakspeare und kein Ende.
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