Of the historical plays, he observes:
It would be a fine national custom to act such a series of dramatic histories in orderly succession, in the yearly Christmas holidays, and could not but tend to counteract that mock cosmopolitism, which, under a positive term, really implies nothing but a negation of, or indifference to, the particular love of our country."
Literary Remains
, Vol. ii. p. 161.
Vide
Vol. ii. p. 1. — Also p. 103 of this work.