text:  The tales modernized and paraphrased from Chaucer and those filled up into poetical telling from Boccacio as they are the works of Dryden's which the most fasten themselves with interest upon a mind open to poetry and free from preconceived literary opinion so do they seem to us to be after all those which a versed critic must distinguish as stamped beyond the others with the skilled ease the flow as of original composition the sustained spirit and force and fervour--in short by the mastery and by the keen zest of Writing