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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 137 — BOOK VI[60]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Thomas Otway (1652-1685), the principal tragic poet of the English classical school. The most famous of his tragedies, Venice Preserved, from which the following quotation is taken, appeared in 1682.—T.

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