"the work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity. other poets display cabinets of precious rarities, minutely finished, wrought into shape, and polished unto brightness. shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerals."