Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Shakespeare” in chapter 1 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays:
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Lamentations, doubts, discouragements, all are wasted things.
Everything is here, between these Atlantic and Pacific shores, save only the perfected utterance that comes with years.
Between Shakespeare in his cradle and Shakespeare in Hamlet there was needed but an interval of time, and the same sublime condition is all that lies between the America of toil and the America of art.
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