Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817), Chapter XV. Borrowed from a Greek monk who applied it to a Patriarch of Constantinople.
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The greatest genius that perhaps human nature has yet produced, our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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