то H IS G R A C E The Duke of NEWCASTLE: MY LORD, I F I presume to address to your Grace Miscellanies of one of our greatest English poets; now first collected and illustrated with Notes; perhaps the acknowledged eminence of the author may apologise for the inconsiderableness of the editor. To whom can these poems be more properly inscribed than to such a patron as Dryden himself would have chosen; a nobleman of the first distinction, known to love polite learning, because he understands and tastes it; and eminent for his candour, no less than his discernment? |