...write, Turn Criticks out of mere revenge and fpight. A Playhoufe gives 'em fame; and up there ftarts, From a mean fifth-rate wit, a man of parts. (So common faces on the ftage appear: We take 'em in ; and they turn beauties here) Our author fears thofe Criticks as his...

...EPILOGUE TO THE SECOND PART OF "ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE, OR. THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA." 1670. PROLOGUE. THEY who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,...man of parts. So common faces on the stage appear ; 5 We take them in, and they turn beauties here. Our author fears those critics as his fate ; And...

...next couplet but one. — WAEEFTBLD. Dryden's Prologue to the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada : They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. 3 In the manuscript there are two more lines, of which the second, was afterwards introduced into the...

...bite. Another prologue begins — They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn eritics out of mere revenge and spite ; A playhouse gives them fame; and up theu starts From a mean fifth-rate wit, a man of parts. f Charles Dickens.l [March 28, 1874.l 515 The...

...little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite. Another prologue begins — They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,...revenge and spite ; A playhouse gives them fame ; and up then starts From a mean fifth-rate wit, a man of parts. The more important critics are described as...

...give only one example, Dryden has in the prologue to the Conquest of Granada, the lines, *' Those, who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite." See on this, Notes and Queries, 4 S. xii. 439, and б S. i. 25, 60, 159, 480 ; iv. 479 ; v. 119, 255...

...To give only one example, Dryden has in the prologue to the Conquest of Granada, the lines, " Those, who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite." See on this, Notes and Queries, 4 S. xii. 439, and 5 S. i. 25, 60, 159, 480 ; iv. 479; v. llfl, 255...

...have been damned for want of wit." Dryden, in the prologue to " The Conquest of Granada," says:— " They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite." Pope says:— " Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain...

...next couplet but one. — WAKEFIELD. Dryden's Prologue to the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada : They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. 3 In the manuscript there are two more lines, of which the second was afterwards introduced into the...

..."each." For the sentiment cf. Dry den's Prologue to the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada : " They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. " 34. If Msevius scribble. Maevius, who is generally coupled with Bavins, was, like Bavius, a wretched...