Note 520 — Chapter IV · DRYDEN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
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It may be not unamusing to give an instance or two of the way in which Nemesis has made poor Tom speak truth unconsciously,—
“They who like this author’s writing will not be offended to find so much repeated from him” [Shakespeare].—P. 108.
“Never in the world had any pagan Poet his brains turned at this monstrous rate.”—P. 111.
“No Pagan poet but would have found some machine for her deliverance.”—P. 134.
“Portia is ... scarce one remove from a Natural. She is the own cousin-german ... with Desdemona.”—P. 156.