288-98.
30.

_Of Dryden_.
LETTER TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.[55] [55] From Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vol.ii.pp.

287-9 (edit.

1856).
Paterdale, Nov.7.

1803.
MY DEAR SCOTT, I was much pleased to hear of your engagement with Dryden: not that he is, as a poet, any great favourite of mine.