AUGUST 13. Fates! we will know your pleasures: That we shall die we know; 'tis but the time, 1912. Horace Howard Furness died. 1771. AUGUST 15. -All's Well That Ends Well. Walter Scott born. He wrote of the Poet: "The only one to whom I can at all compare him is the wonderful Arabian dervise who dived into the body of each person, and became familiar with the thoughts and secrets of their hearts." 1769. Birthday of Napoleon. "After life's fitful fever he sleeps well." AUGUST 16. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, When honour's at the stake. -Hamlet. Gervinus styled these lines "the noblest principle of life ever uttered." AUGUST 17. In nature, there's no blemish but the mind, What custom wills, in all things should we do it, -Coriolanus. 1587. First child of English blood born in America. AUGUST 19. "Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. -Othello. "Othello is perhaps the greatest work in the world." -Macaulay. AUGUST 20. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. A French critic has said: "Shakespeare is a friend whom heaven has given to the unhappy of every age and every country." AUGUST 21. This above all: to thine ownself be true, -Hamlet. "The sprightliest, gravest, wisest, kindest oneShakespeare; Humanity's divinest son." -Leigh Hunt. AUGUST 22. He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe and make his wrongs His outsides; to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart. -Timon of Athens. 1776. Execution of Nathan Hale. He only lived but 'til he was a man But like a man he died. AUGUST 23. -Macbeth. But when we in our viciousness grow hard-o misery on't The wise gods seal our eyes, In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us To our confusion. -Antony & Cleopatra. "If anybody can teach us criminal psychology, AUGUST 24. O hateful Error, Melancholy's child! Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not? -Julius Caesar. "We still measure his elevation by his loneliness and our riches by our share in him." -Whitelam Reid. AUGUST 25. There is no darkness but ignorance. -Twelfth Night. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun. -Love's Labour's Lost. "Others abide our question. Thou art free, All pains the immortal spirit must endure, AUGUST 26. The injuries that they themselves procure Must be their school masters. to wilful men い 1346. Battle of Crecy. -King Lear. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices -King Lear. "He has 1749. Goethe born. He said of the Poet: AUGUST 29. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. 1809. O. W. Holmes born. -Hamlet. These lines are from the poem he wrote for the Tercentennial Celebration of the Poet's birth, April 23rd, 1864. "For him the Lord of light the curtain rent AUGUST 30. There is a history in all men's lives, -II Henry IV. "I have observed that from the boy of ten to the student of thirty, Shakespeare speaks to each according to his capacity." -Maurice Francis Egan. AUGUST 31. Yet nature is made better by no mean, That nature makes. -Winter's Tale. Summer's lease hath all too short a date! -Sonnet. |