[27b] This was written sixteen years ago. We have become since then more amenable to the influences of French civilisation.
[46] What canon of cleanliness, now lost, did Cartwright possess, which enabled him to pronounce Fletcher, or indeed himself, purer than Shakspeare, and his times ‘nicer’ than those of James? To our generation, less experienced in the quantitative analysis of moral dirt, they will appear all equally foul.
[53] C. Lamb, ‘Specimens of English Dramatic Poets,’ p. 229. From which specimens, be it remembered, he has had to expunge not only all the comic scenes, but generally the greater part of the plot itself, to make the book at all tolerable.