The British Poets Including Translations volume 42
The British Poets Including Translations volume 42
University of New Hampshire
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Both in verse and prose, that have been written by the moderns on this groundwork, they do but hacUney the same thoughts over again, making them still more trite. Most of their pieces are nothing but a pert insipid heap of common- place. Horace has, even in his Art of Poetry, thrown out several things which plainly show he thought an Art of Poetry was of no use, even while he was writing one. ' To all which great authorities we can only op- pose that of MR. ADDISON. ' ''The Art of Criticism, ' ...saith he, * which was published some months since, is a masterpiece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been re- '* Essay on Criticism, in prose, octavo, 1728, by the aathor of the Critical History of England. '* Preface to his Poems, p. 18, 53. " Spectator, No. 253. k2 106 THE DUNCIAD. quisite in a prose writer. They are some of them uncommon, but such as the reader must assent to, when he sees them explained with that ease and perspicuity in which they are deUvered.
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