Excerpt from The Tempest: A Play Our readers will pardon us this rhapsody, for we are sure that the subject upon which our feelings have run riot, is one too con genial to their own, for them to take umbrage at our enthusiasm. Indeed, the admiration with which Englishmen regard the writer, is equalled by the love they feel towards the man. They love him for his kind-heartedness, his national pride, his generosity, his humanity, his charity, all the amiable virtues which render humanity engaging, and which the perusal of his works would convince us that he posses sed in an eminent degree, even were the concurring testimony of his contemporaries wanting to assure us of the fact. This convictiontends inexpressibly to heighten the charm of his writings; and, ia dubitably, Englishmen do adore his memory, on this side idolatry, beyond that of any other man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.