• This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

    Mark Akenside: This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.
    Mark Akenside, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1808). “The Works of Mark Akenside, M.D.: In Verse and Prose : with His Life, a Fac Simile of His Hand-writing, and an Essay on the First Poem”