human
Lives are and will be more and more encumbered; the acquisition of knowledge should, therefore, be made more and more easy of reach.
gpt
To abridge the labor and to save the time of others was, said he in his first volume, what impelled him to write. No pains of his were spared to lessen those of others. And all specialists know the extraordinary reliability of his texts and statements.
human
Nowhere, perhaps, Sir Sidney Lee wrote in his _Life of Shakespeare_,
gpt
Shakespeare in his nomenclature was, as in all things, exquisite.... For certain reasons (did he ever do anything without reason?) he chose the name of Thidias....
human
Of course, Shakespeare's Cleopatra is not history. But who cares for history? Of this be assured, that, if you had lived with her as I have for two years, you would adore her as deeply as I do.
gpt
I do not flatter myself that this is an _enjoyable_ edition of Shakespeare. I regard it rather as a necessary evil. [251] On another occasion, having been criticised about a certain statement of his, he wrote:
human
I now wish to state that my critic was entirely right and I entirely wrong.