The British Plutarch Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen Patrio
The British Plutarch Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen Patrio
James R James Robert Pringle
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I was obliged to make as plain and perfpicuous as pombly 1 could, yet not wholly neglecting the numbers, though 1 had not frequent occaiion for the magnificence of verfe. The third, which has more of the nature of domeftic converia- tion, is, or ought to be, more free and familiar than ihe t. Vo former. There are in it two epifodes, or fables, which are interwoven with the main defign ; Jo that thev are properly parts of it, though they are alfo diftincl dories of themfelves. In both of thefe I... have made ufe of the common places of fa- tire, whether true or falfe, which are urged by the members of one Church againft the other. " This poem was attacked by Mr. Charles Mon- tague, afterwards earl of Halifax : and Mr. Mat- thew Prior, who joined in writing the Hind and Pan- ther, tr. V. Ihtilu! to the Country Moufe and Citv IvJoufe, Loi. Il. 1678, 410. In the preface to which the autiioi obfcrves, ** that Mr. Drydea's poem na- turally falls into ridicule ; and that in this bur- Jeiqv. E, nothing is represented monftrous and unna- tural, that is not equally ib in the original.
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