[298] Spectator, No. 47.
[299] An elaborate classification of the various kinds of word-play may be found in an article by Dr. Emil Kräpelin, in Wundt’s Philosoph. Studien, 2er Band, s. 144 ff.
[300] Bergk observes that these are at once individuals and types (Griech. literaturgeschichte, Bd. IV., s. 91).
[301] Mommsen observes that in Terence we have a more becoming, though not yet moral, conception of feminine nature and of married life (Hist. of Rome, Bk. IV., chap. xiii.).
[302] Courthope, Hist. of English Poetry, vol. ii., pp. 345 ff., and 356.
[303] Eng. Lit., Bk. II., chap. iii.
[304] On this mixture of tones see Moulton, Shakespeare as Dramatic Artist, p. 291.
[305] Mr. Meredith touches on the way in which Molière developed his characters out of persons known to him (op. cit., p. 53).
[306] Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare, p. 416.