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) 371 passed ia the correctness of his judgment by the technical critic, is much more likely to recognise the beauties of a new work, by their resemblance to those which are familiar to his memory ; or, if he should himself attempt the task of execu- tion, and possesses powers equal to the task, he may possibly, without any clear conception of his own merits, rival the ori- ginals he has been accustomed to admire. It was said by an ancient critic, that, in reading Seneca, it was impossible not ...to wish, that he had written " with the taste of another person, though with his own genius ;" — sua ingenio, alieno judicio ; ^ — and we find, in fact, that many who have failed as original writers, have seemed to surpass themselves, when they at- tempted to imitate. Warburton has remarked, and, in ray opinion, with some truth, that Burke himself never wrote so well as when he imitated Bolingbroke. If, on other occasions, he has soared higher than in his Vindication of Natural Society, he has certainly nowhere else (I speak at present merely of the style of his composition) sustained himself so long upon a steady wing.
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