Peel paragraph on life in the Elizabethan era

In part, however, the Elizabethan Age was a success because men had at their disposal new and exciting ... and given that reading in the early modern period was frequently an aural experience—official documents ...

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in our power to make a world happy - to teach mankind the art of being so - to a character hitherto unknown - and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated,