1664 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle 277 1711 Joseph Addison 278 1743 Henry Fielding 279 1747 Thomas Edwards 281 1749 Mark Akenside 284 1751 Robert Lloyd 288 1765 Oliver Goldsmith 291 1765 George, Lord Lyttelton 292 1768 Laurence Sterne 295 1769 Anonymous 298 1769 Isaac Bickerstaff 299 1778 Anonymous 302 1788 Horace Walpole 305 1790 Paul Whitehead 306 1812 William Combe 308 1826 Charles Lamb 313 1845 Nathaniel Hawthorne 314 1846 Walter Savage Landor 316 1868 William Schwenck Gilbert 318 1872 Oliver Wendell Holmes 323 1897 Theodore Watts-Dunton 325 1902 Judge Willis 326 To My Very Good Friend, Mr William Shakespeare 329 INDEX 331 SOME NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE’S REPUTATION I INTRODUCTORY