4 vols. 8vo.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. (Edited by Mitford.) London: W.
Pickering. 1832. 6 vols. 18mo.
[2] His "Character of a Happy Warrior" (1806), one of his noblest
poems, has a dash of Dryden in it,--still more his "Epistle to Sir
George Beaumont (1811)."
[3] He studied Dryden's versification before writing his "Lamia."
[4] On the Origin and Progress of Satire. See Johnson's
counter-opinion in his life of Dryden.
[5] Essay on Dramatick Posey.
[6] Life of Lucian.
[7] "The great man must have that intellect which puts in motion the
intellect of others."--Landor, _Im. Con._, Diogenes and Plato.
[8] Character of Polybius (1692).
[9] "For my own part, who must confess it to my shame that I never
read anything but for pleasure." Life of Plutarch (1683).
[10] Gray says petulantly enough that "Dryden was as disgraceful to
the office, from his character, as the poorest scribbler could have
been from his verses."--Gray to Mason, 19th December, 1757.
[11] Essay on the Origin and Progress of Satire.
[12] Dedication of the Georgics.
[13] Dryden's penetration is always remarkable. His general judgment
of Polybius coincides remarkably with that of Mommsen.
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