Excerpt from The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Vol. 1 of 4: With Critical Observations on Their Works In this minute kind of Hifiory, the fucceflion of fac'ts' is not eafily difcovered; and I am not without fome fufpicion that fome of Dryden' 3 works are placed in wrong years. I have followed Langbaine, as the befl authority for his plays. And if I {hall hereafter obtain a. More correct chronology, will publiih it; but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.