You're welcome. I'm embarrassed I didn't know. Not that I think I should expect myself to know every word of Shakespeare - I don't - but I should know better than to just jump to conclusions.
Oh, well, jumping to conclusions is sometimes the best exercise we get all day, right? ;-)
And, of course, I asked *you* because I figure you know far more Shakespeare than I ever will. And you clearly were able to find the correct origin of the quote -- my searches were unsuccessful in the extreme. (I tried searching Google, too, got bupkis.)
I think I am living proof that loving Shakespeare and knowing Shakespeare are not exactly the same thing. On the other hand, his output was so great that unless a person is a scholar of Tudor literature or an actor.
And quite frankly, Thomas Gray is not a name who springs to my mind, even when I'm thinking of writers of his century. I barely know who he was. And if/when I have this conversation again, I'll probably still have to look him up.
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Date: 2006-09-20 03:53 pm (UTC)And, of course, I asked *you* because I figure you know far more Shakespeare than I ever will. And you clearly were able to find the correct origin of the quote -- my searches were unsuccessful in the extreme. (I tried searching Google, too, got bupkis.)
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Date: 2006-09-20 05:05 pm (UTC)I think I am living proof that loving Shakespeare and knowing Shakespeare are not exactly the same thing. On the other hand, his output was so great that unless a person is a scholar of Tudor literature or an actor.
And quite frankly, Thomas Gray is not a name who springs to my mind, even when I'm thinking of writers of his century. I barely know who he was. And if/when I have this conversation again, I'll probably still have to look him up.