[376]Dryden's Works, ed. Sir Walter Scott, 2d ed. 18 vols. 1821, XI. 94.
[377]Rapin (1621-1687), a French Jesuit, a modern Latin poet and literary critic. Bossu, or properly Lebossu (1631-1680), wrote a "Traité du Poème épique," which had a great success in its day. Both critics are now completely forgotten.—Tr.
[378]In his "Defence of the Epilogue of the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada," IV. 226, Dryden says: "Now, if they ask me, whence it is that our conversation is so much refined, I must freely, and without flattery, ascribe it to the court."
[379]"Heroic stanzas to the memory of Oliver Cromwell."
[380]"Defence of the Epilogue of the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada," IV. 213.
[381]Preface to "Troilus and Cressida," VI. 239.
[382]"Defence of the Epilogue of the Conquest of Granada," IV. 219.
[383]"Defence of the Epilogue of the Conquest of Granada," IV. 225-228.
[384]Preface to "All for Love," V. 306.