The Satires of Dryden: Absalom and Achitopel, the Medal, Mac Flecknoe. E-book. Formato PDF John Churton Collins   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

A Grateful confession of immense indebtedness to the labours of Sir Walter Scott and Mr. W. D. Christie is, and always must be, incumbent on any Editor of the Satires of Dryden. My own indebtedness to them is too great to be specified in detail, and I must therefore satisfy myself with this general acknowledgment. But if they did much they have also left much to be done. Those who have made Dryden a subject of special study will see that I have contributed something, in addition to what I have derived from those excellent commentators, towards the elucidation of obscure passages, and something also in the way of new illustrations and parallels. With two or three deviations Mr. Christie's text is adopted throughout, and as this edition is designed rather for students of literature and students of history than for those who are interested in textual criticism, I have not thought it necessary either to discuss or mark various readings. Dryden is not a classic in whose style minutiæ of this kind are of importance.

Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau in England. E-book. Formato PDF John Churton Collins   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This book is an attempt to sketch the history of three singularly interesting episodes in the literary relations between France and England, namely, the' visits of Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, during periods extending respectively from the spring of 1726 to the spring of 1729, from the autumn of 1729 to the spring or early summer of 1731, andfrom January 1766 to May 1767. It is an attempt to supply what has not been supplied elsewhere, or indeed treated in any other way than occasionally and collaterally, by any previous writer, so far at least as I know.