When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies, and brought them into life.”
— Emerson, “Quotation and Originality”
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies, and brought them into life.”
— Emerson, “Quotation and Originality”