Shakespeare and Architecture 



is known beyond his writings. Dean Church, in 

 his sermons on Pascal, etc., has a very striking 

 passage on this self-effacement of Bishop Butler ; 

 and has shown that, near as he is to our own day, 

 little or nothing can be learned of him in the 

 many places in which he passed his life 

 Wantage, Oxford (Oriel), London (St Paul's and 

 the Rolls), Stanhope, Bristol, and Durham. So 

 it seems to have been with Shakespeare ; and 

 though his silence on all points of architecture 

 does not prove it by itself, yet, added to the other 

 proofs, I think it strengthens them ; and whatever 

 it may prove of his habits and character, or even if 

 it prove nothing, I think it at least noteworthy. 



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