Shakesperian

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1. archaicArchaic spelling of Shakespearean.

   I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakesperian beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

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   Verdi is not our debtor in anything. There is in his music Shakesperian demoniacality: he shrinks not before such a redoubtable task as the composing of Iago’s grand monologue with its gloomy god-denying philosophy of life and death—and how high does he not soar in this scene!

   1901 March, Edvard Grieg, translated by Ethel Hearn, “[Giuseppe] Verdi”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century and After […], volume XLIX, number CCLXXXIX, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co., […]; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, →OCLC, page 453