...for my own part, find any thing invidious ,or sparing in those verses, but wonder Mr. Dryden was of that opinion. He exalts him not only above all his contemporaries, but above Chaucer and Spenser, whom he will not allow to be great enough to be ranked with him ; and challenges the names...

...for my own part find anything incidio-i or sparing in those verses, but wonder Mr. Dryden was of thar opinion. He exalts him not only above all his contemporaries, but above Chaucer and Spenser, whom he will not allow to be great enough to be ranked with him ; and challenges the names...

...of that opinion. He exalts him not only above all his contemporaries, but above Chaucer and Spenser, whom he will not allow to be great enough to be ranked...challenges the names of Sophocles, Euripides, and yEschylus, nay, all Greece and Rome at once, to equal him : and (which is very particular) expressly...

...for my own part find anything invidious or sparing in those verses, xxxi but wonder Mr. Dryden was of that opinion. He exalts him not only above all his contemporaries, but above Chaucer and Spenser, whom he will not allow to be great enough to be ranked with him ; and challenges the names...

...cannot for my own part find any thing Invidious or Sparing in those verses, but wonder Mr. Dryden was of that opinion. He exalts him not only above all his Contemporaries, but above Chaucer and Spenser, whom he will not allow to be great enough to be rank'd with him ; and challenges the names...

...great enough to be rank'd with him ; and challenges the names of Sophocles, Euripides, and Mschylus, nay all Greece and Rome at once, to equal him: And (which is very particular) expressly vindicates him from the imputation of wanting Art, not enduring that all his excellencies...

...great enough to be rank'd with him ; and challenges the names of Sophocles, Euripides, and Mschylus, nay all Greece and Rome at once, to equal him : And (which is very particular) expressly vindicates him from the imputation of wanting Art, not enduring that all his excellencies...

...that opinion. He exalts liim not only above all his contemporaries, but above Chaucer and Spenser, whom he will not allow to be great enough to be ranked...challenges the names of Sophocles, Euripides, and ^Eschylus, nay all Greece and Rome at once, to equal him; and (which is very particular) expressly...

...Two Noble Kinsmen. . . . [p. ill] [Reference to Ben Joiison's praise of Shakespeare :] He [p. xiii] exalts him not only above all his Contemporaries, but above Chaucer and Spenser. 1726. Sykes, James. Letters to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, [printed in] Report on the Mawiscripts...