maximins

Updated: May 1, 2025

That is, in many respects, a noble play, and there are few finer scenes, whether in the conception or the carrying out, than that between Antony and Ventidius in the first act. As usual, Dryden's good sense was not blind to the extravagances of his dramatic style. In "Mac Flecknoe" he makes his own Maximin the type of childish rant, "And little Maximins the gods defy";

James Russell Lowell - Among My Books: First Series