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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