text:  And he has the brazen-faced assurance to say that the first image he had of Almanzor in the "Conquest of Grenada " was from the Achilles of Homer! The next was from Tasso's Rinaldo and the third--_risum teneatis amici--from the Artaban of Monsieur Calpranede_! Unquestionably our English heroic plays were borrowed from the French--as these were the legitimate offspring of the dramas of Calpranede and Scuderi