The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 39
The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 39
Alexander Chalmers
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' It is plain he has Dogberry and Verges in his eye, and no less so in the following, that he points his ridi- cule against Caliban and the romance of the Tem- pest ' If there be never a servant monster in the fair who can help it, he sai/s, nor a nest of anticks? He is loath to make nature afraid of his plays, like those that beget tales. Tempests, and such like drolleries, to mix his head with other men's heels. ' If any of our commentators upon Shakspeare have anticipated my remark upon thes...e instances of Jon- son's propensities to carp at their favourite poet, I have overlooked the annotation, but when I find him recommending to his audience, such a farrago of vulgar ribaldry as Bartholomew Fair, by pretend- ing to exalt it above such exquisite productions as The Tempest, and Much Ado about Nothing, it is an act of warrantable retaliation to expose his vanity. It is not always however that he betakes himself to these masked attacks upon that sublime genius, IS-i OBSERVER. N' 74. which he professed to admire almost to idolatry, it must be owned he sometimes meets him upon equal ground, and nobly contends with laudable emulation for the chaplet of victory : What I now particularly have in my eye is the Masque of the Queens.
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