and preference of the latter.
It is strange to take an incidental passage of one writer, intended only for a subordinate part, and compare it with the same thought in another writer, who had chosen it for a prominent and principal figure.
Ib. Seward's preference of Alphonso's poisoning [pg 286] in A Wife for a Month, act i. sc. 1, to the passage in King John, act v. sc. 7:—
“Poison'd, ill fare! dead, forsook, cast off!”
Mr. Seward! Mr. Seward! you may be, and I trust you are, an angel; but you were an ass.
Ib.—
“Every reader of taste will see how superior this is to the quotation from Shakespeare.”
Of what taste?
Ib. Seward's classification of the plays.
Surely Monsieur Thomas, the Chances, Beggar's Bush, and the Pilgrim, should have been placed in the very first class! But the whole attempt ends in a woful failure.