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Excerpt from Musings Memories of a Musician Shakespeare's All the world's a stage must appear of 'particular aptness and truth to the man who, approaching the threescore and ten of the Patriarch, reviews his past with the object of writing down his reminiscences. Looking back on the events of his life he sees them as he would so many scenes in an old stage-play upon which the curtain has fallen long ago, and the men and women who appeared in them pass before his spiritual Vision like actors and actresses; some having stirred his imagination, kindled the fire of his enthusiasm, some touched him to tears, pro yoked his mirth: some perhaps exceeded his expectations, some fallen short of them; but all having left some mark, some impression on his mind, lasting for a longer or shorter period, according to their part and to the manner in which it was acted. 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.