Excerpt from Ambrose Philips as a Dramatist; A Contribution to the History of English Literature in the 18th Century: Inaugural-Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Submitted to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Berne Under each group Pope put the initials of the persons described, and afterward he had the audacity to declare, that the initials were selected at random. Here we find Philips introduced as a tortoise with the words. 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.