text:  But he has "every respect for the genius and for every thing that belongs to the memory of Dryden;" and thus magniloquently eulogizes his most splendid achievement:--"The fact is Dryden's version of the 'Knight's Tale' would be most appropriately read by the towering shade of one of Virgil's heroes walking up and down a battlement and waving a long gleaming spear to the roll and sweep of his sonorous numbers