ABSTRACT
The close of Thomas Rymer’s Preface to his translation of Rapin’s Reflections on Aristotle’s Treatise of Poesie … with Reflections on the Works of the Ancient and Modern Poets, and their Faults noted. Dryden’s lines, ‘All things are hush’d …’, are in The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards (1667), III. ii; ‘made famous’ (Dr. Johnson) by Rymer’s criticism, they were often quoted and parodied (cf. Pope, Dunciad, ii. 418) during the eighteenth century.
