Critics of Shakespeare

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that honors due only to excellence are paid to antiquity is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointments upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.
<Tab/>Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votar…