...to such low expressions as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets : he wears almost everywhere two faces ; and you have scarce begun to admire the one ere you despise the other." l To the same effect spoke Crowne, a few years later, in dedicating to Sir Charles Sedley his adaptation...

...to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. . . . Let us therefore admire the beauties and the height of Shakespeare, without falling after him...

...it is äs affected äs it is obscure": "He is the very Janus of poets; he wears, almost everywhere two faces: and you have scarce begun to admire the one, e're you despise the other". And Pope: „With all these great excellencies , he has almost äs great defects; and ... äs he has...

...to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. Now it must be confessed that these extracts do not represent Dryden's best critical tone. They were...

...the Subject, that he writes in many places below the dullest Writers of ours, or any precedent Age. He is the very Janus of Poets; he wears almost every...begun to admire the One, e're you despise the other.' Speaking of 1 Act 5, Sc. 1. ' Postscript to Granada, pag. 146. Mr. Shakespear's Plots, he says they...

...the Subject, that he writes in many places below the dullest Writers of ours, or any precedent Age. He is the very Janus of Poets ; he wears almost every...begun to admire the One, e're you despise the other.' Speaking of 1 Act 5, Sc. i. a Postscript to Granada, pag. 146. SP1NOARN III I Mr. Shakespear1 's Plots,...

...than any poet, in any language," is nevertheless "the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces, and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." — "Defence of the Epilogue"; WP Ker, " Essays of John Dryden," Oxford, 1900, 2 vols. 8vo, vol. ip...

...to so low expressions as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces ; and you have scarce begun to admire the one ere you despise the other." Of the Elizabethan audiences he writes, "They knew no better, and therefore were satisfied with what...

...expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces ; you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." l After stating that even Ben Jonson descended to the "most grovelling kind of wit, which we call clenches,"...

...wears, almoft everywhere two faces : and you have fcarce begun to admire the one, e're you defpife the other. Neither is the Luxuriance of Fletcher, (which his friends have tax'd in him,) a lefs fault than the careleflhefs of Shakefpear. (p. 169.) »**»*» Shakefpear fhow'd...