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Compare Nestor, Ajax, Achilles, &c. in the Troilus and Cressida of Shakspeare with their namesakes in the Iliad. The old heroes seem all to have been at school ever since. I scarcely know a more striking instance of the strength and pregnancy of the Gothic mind.
Dryden's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels _get_ hot by driving fast.