... "glass," it havingapparently occurred to some wiseacre that glass was not known to the ancients, or at least used for mirrors.Had this wiseacre had the slightest knowledge of English literature, ... tower Conjoined so firm, that as a rock, exceeding high and great, Andstanding near the hoary sea, bears many a boisterous threat Of high-voiced winds and billows huge, belchedon it by the ... which was curiously echoed in thenext age by Nat. Lee, in whom, indeed, there was a strong vein of Elizabethan melodrama. The sarcasm onphilosophical study in What You Will is one of the very best...