Barrow, it seems, was at the Edinburgh University, which is in the county of Lothian. Ed. 1788.
The Œdipus of Sophocles.
Julius the Second, the immediate predecessor of Leo the Tenth.
Their characters are thus distinguished by Mr. Dryden.
About the time of Shakespeare, the poet Hardy was in great repute in France. He wrote, according to Fontenelle, six hundred plays. The French poets after him applied themselves in general to the correct improvement of the stage, which was almost totally disregarded by those of our own country, Jonson excepted.