...remain. Late, very late, correctness grew our care, When the tir'd Nation breath'd from civil war. Exact Racine, and Corneille's noble fire, Show'd us that France had something to admire. 275 Not but the Tragic spirit was our own, And full in Shakespeare, fair in Otway shone : But Otway...

...219: "Late, very late, correctness grew our care, / When the tir'd nation breath'd from civil war. / Exact Racine, and Corneille's noble fire / Show'd us that France had something to admire" (from: "The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated" [1737], 11. 272-75); John Dryden,...

...remain. Late, very late, correctness grew our care, When the tir'd nation breath'd from civil war. Exact Racine, and Corneille's noble fire Show'd us that France had something to admire. 20 What Gray and Hunt after him imply about the sweetness of Italian is implicit in such phrases as...

...remain. Late, very late, correctness grew our care, When the tired nation breathed from civil war. Exact Racine, and Corneille's noble fire, Show'd us that France had something to admire. Not but the tragic spirit was our own, And full in Shakespeare, fair in Otway shone : But Otway fail'd...

...remain. Late, very late, correctness grew our care, When the tir'd Nation breath'd from civil war. Exact Racine, and Corneille's noble fire, Show'd us that France had something to admire. 275 Not but the Tragic spirit was our own, And full in Shakespeare, fair in Otway shone : But Otway...