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was being heard: Swinburne’s “‘Merope” and Morris’

“Sir Galahad” and “The Defence of Guinevere” had ap-

peared the year before. A new generation was being born:

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apinioD, written io the middle of the eighteenth

century, soon after the ap]>earaT]ce of Gray'n

" Elegy." I may be wrong as lo the dale, but

fixed, but in Mr. Garricic's copy has been wrote * by John Fletcher,* through which name a

pen has been run, and ' Francis Beamont* wrote over the line ; even this mterlineation ap-

Mars to be very old. The second quarto appeared in l648, the title whereof mentions

- Jle never writ any one thing twice."] May we not suppose this to have been a sort of

common-place compliment? but surely it is a ver^- injudicious one. A similar ^scrtion, ap-

plied to Shakespeare, has afibrded much conversation in the literary world.

miles round, which is a circuit that will take in about

fifty villages. And that this was commonly done, ap-

pears from Carew’s Survey of Cornwall, which was

but long before, were sometimes personal satires, ap-

peal’s from a manuscript letter from Sir John Hallies to

However fanciful the three principal characters may ap-

pear, Ben Jonson evidently drew them from real life. Sub-