Shakesperian

English Etymology From en Shakespere ian. Adjective en 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. en 1901 March w:Edvard Grieg Ethel Hearn Giuseppe Verdi James Thomas Knowles The Nineteenth Century and AfterA Monthly Review XLIX CCLXXXIX New York, N.Y. Leonard Scott Publication Co.,7 & 9 Warren Street; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited 453 https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury49londuoft/page/453/mode/1up 42299499 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!