首页 › The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac › 第 841 题 BUNYAN’S HOLY WAR DRAMATISED. A very beautiful manuscript was once put into the hands of one of Dr.
Aikin’s correspondents by a provincial bookseller, to whom it had been
offered for publication. It consisted of two tragedies upon the subject
of John Bunyan’s Holy War: they were the _composition_ of a lady, who
had fitted together scraps from Shakspeare, Milton, Young’s Night
Thoughts, and Erskine’s Gospel Sonnets, into the dramatic form, with no
other liberty than that of occasionally altering a name. The lady
Constance, for instance, was converted into lady Conscience: the whole
speeches and scenes were thus introduced in a wholesale sort of cento.
The ghost in Hamlet also did for a Conscience.[251]
[251] Athenæum.
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The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac · 第 841 / 1847 题