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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... Lieutenant of Ireland. Dryden describes him as Barzillai in "Absalom and Aohitophel." The "Fables" are dedicated to bis grandson, the second duke. 1. 8, Horace will support him. "Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est." Epistol. I., xvii. 35. p. 51, 1. 4, Afra Behn. Afra (or Aphra) Behn (1640-1689), was the daughter of a barber. After a voyage to Surinam she married a Dutch merchant named Behn, and was left a widow at the age of twenty-five or twenty-six. She was the friend of the chief wits and courtiers of the time, and wrote many tales and plays. The chief of her tales is "Oroonoko" (1668), a sort of seventeenth century " Uncle Tom's Cabin," while the "Rover" and the "Roundheads" are her two best plays. The address to Eleanor Gwyn, of which Johnson speaks, is prefixed to " The Feigned Courtesan " (1679). p. 52,1.16, Collier, Blackmore, and Milbourne. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726), the Nonjuring clergyman, who attacked the dramatists of his day, and especially Dryden, in his " Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage" (1698). See Macaulay's " Essay on the Comic Dramatists of the Restoration." Sir Richard Blackmore (about 1650-1729), a fashionable Whig physician, who, when nearly fifty, appeared as a poet, and published "Prince Arthur" in 1695, and "King Arthur" in 1697. He was a favourite butt for the critics of his time, and, above all, for Pope and Pope's Tory friends. See Johnson's account of him, " Lives of the Poets," Bohn, ii. 223, seq. On Milbourne, see p. 156 above. For Dryden's references to Milbourne, Blackmore, and Collier, see Globe edition, pp. 505, 506. 1. 31, a reflection on Collier. The opening lines of "Cymon and Iphigenia," see Globe, p. 633. p. 53, 1. 6, " Satire upon Wit." This was published in 1700. 1....
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