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Subtitle: To Which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks Volume: 8 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: Printed for C. and J. Rivington Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTERS TO AND FROM MR. WYCHERLEY: FROM THE YEAR 1704 TO 1710. LETTER I. TO MR. WYCHERLEY. Binfteld, in Windsor Forest, Dec. 26, 1704. f It was certainly a great satisfaction to me to see and converse With a man, whom in his writingsI had so long known with pleasure; but it was a high addition to it, to hear you, at our very first meeting, doing justice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden. I was not so happy as to know him: Virgilium tantum vidi Had I been born early enough, I must have known and loved him. For I have been assured, not only by yourself, but by Mr. Congreve and Sir William Trumbull, that his personal qualities were as amiable as his poetical, notwithstanding the many libellous misrepresentations of them, against which the former of these gentlemen has told me he will one day vindicate him.] I suppose those injuries were begun by the violence of party, but it is no doubt they were continued by envy at his success and fame. J And those scribblers who attacked him in his latter times, were only like gnats in a summer evening, which are never very troublesome but in the finestand most glorious season; for his fire, like the sun's, shined clearest towards its setting. If one were to judge of this set of Letters by the manner of thinking and turn of expression, one should conclude they had been all mis-titled; and that the letters given to the boy of sixteen, were written by the man of seventy, and...

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