“Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age.”
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) English poet and critic
The Ancient And Modern Muses
“Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.”
Curiosity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age." by Charles Sprague?
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