...most correct of his: But spite of all his pride. . .a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name. Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair. . .would quit the stage, And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does. . .with disdain. . .the foremost honours yield. As with the greater...

...Aurengezebe, Dryden confesses that : A secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name ; Aw'd when he hears his godlike Romans rage He, in a just despair, would quit the stage. Goethe said that it was fortunate for himself that he had not, in German, to follow any such crushing...