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" Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. "
The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ... - Page 606
by John Dryden - 1800
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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 pages
...is, that I was the author of Absalom and Achitophel, which he thinks was a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...the dead, and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem...
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Essays of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1926 - 344 pages
...that I was the author of Absalom andy, Achitophel, which, he thinks, is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I Will deal the more civilly...because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead ; and 5 therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight...
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Essays of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...that I was the author of Absalom and 35 Achitophel, which, he thinks, is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead ; and 5 therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight...
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Preface to the Fables

John Dryden - 1928 - 54 pages
...that I was the author of Absalom and Achitophel, which, he thinks, is 20 a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...dead ; and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this 25 noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 39

1909 - 498 pages
...that I was the author of Absalom and Achitophel, which, he thinks, is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead; and therefore •• Sir Richard Blackmore, who had censured Dryden for the indecency of bis writings. HC XXXIX peace...
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The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden

Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 pages
...thought the worst poet of the age. 76 I will deal the more civilly with his [Sir Richard Blackmore's] two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of...the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. 77 [H]e [Jeremy Collier] is too much given to horse-play... and comes to battle like a dictator...
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The Major Works

John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...is that I was the author of Absalom and Achitophel' which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems,0 because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the manes [shades]...
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The Preface to the Fables

62 pages
...that I was the Author of Absalom and Architophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his Fanatique Patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly...Dead : And therefore Peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs, I will only say that it was not for this Noble Knight that I drew the Plan of an Epick Poem...
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Selected Poems

John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...author of Absalom and Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. 790 But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems,...the dead; and therefore peace be to the manes of his Arthurs. I will only say that it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem...
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