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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: topped the whole. It may be imagined how lamely matters went
throughout these cross purposes.
In spite of this, and some other hitches, Salvini's Macbeth
had an emphatic success. The creation is worthy of a place
beside the same artist's Othello and Hamlet. It is the
simplest and most unsympathetic of the three; but the absence
of the finer lineaments of Hamlet is redeemed by gusto,
breadth, and a headlong unity. Salvini sees nothing great in
Macbeth beyond the royalty of muscle, and that courage which
comes of strong and copious circulation. The moral smallness
of the man is insisted on from the first, in the shudder of
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