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Excerpt from Great Pan Lives; Shakespeare's Sonnets, 20-126: With Paraphrase and References In the present work I invite the Reader to a special study of the Evolution of the Ideal observable in Sonnets 20 - 126. To assist perception, the secondary or dumb signification of these sonnets, except when it speaks in effect with more than usual plainness, is paraphrased almost lineally. The references are the basis of the paraphrase. If the Reader will consult them steadily, he will find himself engaged in work of systematic textual comparison, which will afford him literary pleasure and enlightenment and the cumulative interest almost of independent-discovery, and will assure him of the fact that the paraphrase is not an arbitrary composition, but is supported adequately by textual evidence. In further aid, the parallel passages indicated by the references are woven to a consider able extent into the paraphrase. It is essential to a comprehension of the subject that the sonnets contained in this book should be studied in their numerical order. Sonnets 1 - 19, 127 - 154 are omitted. I reserve methodic elucidation of the secondary signification of these sonnets to another time and place. 'references to them in the following pages can be looked up in ordinary editions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.