text:  In short besides the individual constitution and self-consistency of the CHARACTERS besides the spontaneous and self-timed motion of the PASSIONS we are further and distinctly to admire this--that the springs the constitution and the government of ACTION are imitated;--as if the inexperienced player from Avon side had stood personally confidentially participatingly present in the heart of all human transactions: And if it appears to the acute critic wonderful that Shakspeare should have found in his own bosom the archetypes of so many and so diverse individualities that he should have found there the law given by original Nature for the flow and current the impulsion the meandering and the precipitation of the _passions_; it strikes him as yet more wonderful more like an inspiring that he should have found there a divination of that which is subsequent to and ingrafted upon Nature--namely of human life itself of universal human experience; much in the same way as Ulysses admired most in the song of Demodocus his knowledge of that which had passed withinside the Wooden Horse and concluded hence to the undoubted inspiration of the Muse