Now, if one were to take Shadwell for the subject of a paper, one might very well show how unjustly his name has fallen into contempt.

It has often occurred to me to do this.

"But Shadwell never deviates into sense." The sneer, in my opinion, is entirely unmerited.

For my own part, I put Shadwell very high among the dramatists of his time, and I think I could show that his absolute worth is by no means inconsiderable.

Shadwell has distinct vigour of dramatic conception; his dialogue....' And as he talked the man kept describing imaginary geometrical figures with the end of his walking-stick; he very seldom raised his eyes from the ground, and the stoop in his shoulders grew more and more pronounced, until at a little distance one might have taken him for a hunchback.