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The taste of the Restoration times condemned Dryden to write in a way unworthy of himself for money. "Neither money nor honour that in two words was the position of writers after the Restoration."* *Beljame, Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres in Angleterre.
The late Professor Beljame has shown us how the milieu was created in which, with no subvention, whether from a patron, a theatre, a political paymaster, a prosperous newspaper or a fashionable subscription-list, an independent writer of the mid-eighteenth century, provided that he was competent, could begin to extort something more than a bare subsistence from the reluctant coffers of the London booksellers.
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