text: " Shakspeare lethargic--comatose! Sir Walter's admiration of "glorious John" was so much part of his very nature that he says "it is a bold perhaps presumptuous task to attempt to separate the true from the false criticism in the foregoing essay: for who is qualified to be umpire betwixt Shakspeare and Dryden?" None that ever breathed better than his own great and good self