But, to return to my Subject; which now calls upon me to inquire into those Causes, to which the depravations of my Author originally may be assign'd.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
So careless was this great poet of future fame, that, though he retired to ease and plenty, while he was yet little declined into the vale of years, before he could be disgusted with fatigue, or disabled by infirmity, he made no collection of his works, nor desired to rescue those that had been already published from the depravations that obscured them, or secure to the rest a better destiny, by giving them to the world in their genuine state.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
That he anticipated by sixty years and more certain depravations in style and taste notorious in our own day is something: it is more that his achievement in gaudy writing and in the literary treatment of art was really considerable.
"A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)"
George Saintsbury