John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5342 Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5342 |
| AUTHOR: | Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| QUOTATION: | Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world’s,— 1 Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk’d along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | To Robert Browning. |
| Note 1. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit. Ralph Waldo Emerson: May-Day and Other Pieces. Solution. [back] |