...whole Hamlets, — I should say, handfuls of tragical speeches. But, oh, grief ! Tempus tdax renim, — what is that will last always? The sea, exhaled by...page by page, at length must needs die to our stage." It has most unaccountably been assumed that this passage refers to Shakespeare ; f and it is even so...
Seneca, let blood line by line and page by page, at length must needs die to our stage... 
