But this subject offers so vast a field of observation, it being so eminently the prerogative of Shakspeare to have thought more finely and more extensively than all other poets combined, that we cannot wrong the dignity of such a theme by doing more, in our narrow limits, than simply noticing it as one of the Emblazonries upon Shakspeare's shield.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
The fault lay in Southey's political relations at that era; his sympathy with the French Revolution in its earlier stages had been boundless; in all respects it was a noble sympathy, fading only as the gorgeous coloring faded from the Emblazonries of that awful event, drooping only when the promises of that golden dawn sickened under stationary eclipse.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
Of course, there is much that is pompous, affected, unreal about the place; the plaster beams, painted to look like oak; the ugly Emblazonries; the cruel painted glass; the laboriously collected objects-all these reveal the childish side of Scott, the superficial self which slipped from him so easily when he entered into the cloud.
"The Upton Letters"
Arthur Christopher Benson
