Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Men of Letters, Vol. 3: Dryden; Pope; Sidney
Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, He chooses Athens in his riper age.
It has been sought to diminish the force of this very left handed compliment to Cambridge by quoting a phrase Of Dryden's concerning the gross ?attery that universities will endure. But I am inclined to think that most uni versity men will agree with me that this is probably a1] before the restoration.
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