What a "towering bravery" there is in his sensuality! he affects no pleasure under a Sultan.

It is as if "Egypt with Assyria strove in luxury." * * * * * GEORGE CHAPMAN.
_Bussy D'Ambois_, _Byron's Conspiracy_, _Byron's Tragedy_, &c.
&c .-- Webster has happily characterized the "full and heightened style" of Chapman, who, of all the English play-writers, perhaps approaches nearest to Shakspeare in the descriptive and didactic, in passages which are less purely dramatic.

He could not go out of himself, as Shakspeare could shift at pleasure, to inform and animate other existences, but in himself he had an eye to perceive and a soul to embrace all forms and modes of being.

He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses rewritten.

The earnestness and passion which he has put into every part of these poems would be incredible to a reader of mere modern translations.