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Expression: on this side idolatry



 
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Expression: on this side idolatry #1 (permalink) Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:01 am   Expression: on this side idolatry
 

Hi,

Could you please help me with:

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--Our young Irish bards, John Eglinton censured, have yet to create a figure which the world will set beside Saxon Shakespeare's Hamlet though I admire him, as old Ben did, on this side idolatry. (IX, Ulysses)

What does 'on this side idolatry' suggest? Is it saying: on this side (in Ireland) people idolize Shakespeare?

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Expression: on this side idolatry #2 (permalink) Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:52 am   Expression: on this side idolatry
 

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No-- Eglinton is saying that he very much admires (almost to a state of idolatry-- this is hyperbole, of course) the character, Hamlet (rather than Shakespeare, I think). On this side (of) = almost; not quite.
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