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Philips so far overlooks him, that he crowds him into his supplement, and Winstanley, who followed him, postpones our author till after the Earl of Rochester. Sir Thomas Pope Blount makes no mention of him; and Mr. Jacob, so justly called the Blunderbus of Law, informs us he wrote in the time of Charles the first, tho' he dedicates his translation of Tasso to Queen Elizabeth.
In 1676, his last comedy called the Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter, came on the stage, with the most extravagant success; he was then a servant to the beautiful duchess of York, of whom Dryden has this very singular expression, 'that he does not think, that at the general resurrection, she can be made to look more charming than now. Sir George dedicates this play to his Royal Mistress, with the most courtly turns of compliment.
It is preceded by a Dedication, in which the author dedicates 'both it and himself' to 'the most noble and most equal sisters, the two famous Universities, in grateful acknowledgment 'for their love and acceptance shown to this Poem in the presentation.
These are the times, which were farther off, to which he appeals from those nearer ages, and to which he expressly dedicates the opening of his designs. Now, what is it that we have to find? What is it that is missing out of this philosophy? Nothing less than the 'principal' part of it. All that is good for anything in it, according to the author's own estimate.
Whatsoever a man dedicates, let it be of wood and wood only, or if it be of stone, of stone only. The general murmur of assent shows, O Maximus, and you, gentlemen, who have the honour to assist him, that I am adjudged to have made admirable use of Plato, not only as a guide in life, but as an advocate in court, to whose instructions, as you see, I give implicit obedience.
But this was not, we suspect, merely interested servility: it was the overflowing of a mind singularly disposed to admiration, of a mind which diminished vices, and magnified virtues and obligations. The most adulatory of his addresses is that in which he dedicates the State of Innocence to Mary of Modena. Johnson thinks it strange that any man should use such language without self-detestation.
Unable to get it published, he abridges it, and dedicates the abridgment to Abbe Raynal, recapitulating in a strained style, with warm, vibrating sympathy, the annals of his small community, its revolts and deliverances, its heroic and sanguinary outbreaks, its public and domestic tragedies, ambuscades, betrayals, revenges, loves, and murders, in short, a history similar to that of the Scottish highlanders, while the style, still more than the sympathies, denotes the foreigner.
From the age of fifteen, at the Academy and afterwards in his regiment, he finds refuge in imagination in the past of his island; he recounts its history, his mind dwells upon it for many years, and he dedicates his work to Paoli.
In her white forehead there were two vertical lines which were never smoothed out. An irreligious person, looking at her just then, might have felt moved to say, with a horrible irony, "And can God do no more than that for the woman who dedicates her life to His service?"
One of the most notable of modern plays is Brieux's Les Avariés . This distinguished dramatist, himself a medical man, dedicates his play to Fournier, the greatest of syphilographers.
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