TO

MATTHEW DAVENPORT HILL, ESQ., Q.C.,

WITH THE AFFECTIONATE REGARD

WHICH BELONGS TO A FRIENDSHIP UNCHANGED

AMIDST THE CHANGES OF THIRTY YEARS,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY

CHARLES KNIGHT.

June, 1849.

BOOK XI.

SHAKSPERE'S CRITICS.

CHAPTER

1. Milton-Edward Phillips

II. Cibber-Dryden-Rymer-Gildon-Dennis-Addison.

III. Rowe-Pope—Theobald-Hanmer-Warburton

IV. Johnson, Voltaire--Mrs. Montagu-Martin Sherlock-Hume

V. Capell --- Farmer Steevens - Malone Garrick - Richardson — Morgann

Whately-Percy-Warton-Lamb—Hazlitt-Coleridge.

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505

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528

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** The five miniature-portraits of Shakspere, forming the frontispiece, are taken from the

following authorities :-top, left—The Chandos Picture, now in the possession of the
Earl of Ellesmere ;--top, right--Droeshout's Print, prefixed to the folio of 1623 ;-centre,
The Bust at Stratford, as drawn by the late Mr. Phillips, R. A., and engraved under the
direction of Mr. Britton ;-bottom, left-Mr. Nicol's Picture, of which there is an
engraving ;-bottom, right-An Ancient Picture (with the panel frame of the wainscot
in which it was inserted), in the possession of Mr. Knight.