The Modern Dunciad: Virgil in London And Other Poems
The Modern Dunciad: Virgil in London And Other Poems
George Daniel
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Ere pubHc opinion had stamped his production the first of modern comedies, he was placed beyond the reach of praise or censure. To what high rank in dramatic poetry he might have attained, under happier auspices, is a question im- possible to decide, and melancholy to contemplate. The fine sensibilities of genius are ill calculated to contend with coldness and neglect. That Tobin inherited them in a very eminent degree, and that they were most cruelly trifled with, the brief record that remains... of him painfully testifies. It has been objected, that he is not an original. — But what dramatic writer since Dryden, Wycherley, and Con- greve, is an original t Are not the comedies of Gibber and Fielding professedly taken from the French? Those of Murphy are in the same predicament. Garrick and tlie elder Colman are very liberal borrowers. Is Sheridan an original ? Certainly not. To descend (and a painful descent it is !) to the playwrights of our own times, the far greater portion illustrate a remark which Sheridan has taken verbatim from Churchill — they have stolen the thoughts of others — and, as gypsies do children, disfigured them, to make 'em pass for their own !
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