The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureTobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1801 |
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Page 45 - The same gentleman remarked, that that at one time he wore his hair in large quantity, and that it inclined to gray, even before his misfortunes; a circumstance which, he said, he had learned from a portrait of Dryden, painted by Kneller, formerly in the possession of the late Mr. James West. But perhaps his lordship here is not quite accurate. By " before his misfortunes" was meant before the Revolution ; but the portrait in question was probably painted at a later period.