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Show " The Epifil sbo b conveyance of his Trick Jedicatory But thefe falf iy o t ceafe Aclo th when ow Rain tha lafti mor whe kling thof tre iy Do fl‘;\'o',", "hefl atp, forne u 3 T Cr}fl&"ll od penwi twinin- vanif the xzcw rc'flc hi wit longe he guilds them # o 56::0; wa wha g readi th d wond ime I have fome 1heath #po oy Dam Bufi.) i m ama whic Colou glarin fi"f‘fl Star falle d Jupp wha u take but when I ha whic mafi,, dul col bu wothi Fell wit cocen bee F ha i u drefs h thou f dwarf n fboot wa i tha longe n glitrer an on prcj[ of.e. ef loofe ance abun ingigantick ‘words, repetitio grofs Eyperboles; the Senfe of one line expanded prodigioufly into ten Poetr falf o ming hideo an h Engli ec uncor all u [u t and and trune Nonfenfe; or, at beft, a [cantling of Wit which lay gafping fo 'flm Mfw:'f /.[ . [ fittle val it Nadnefs c it Syelators i ffi,' i the H i r {%m'J l".'-/ dignation encugh to burn a Damboys annnally to the memory of Johnlon. I am fenfible, perbap ,mb !{f"':lj :W'fijf 147 J/jbf.‘.‘f/ ol ?VS.‘J.'.'. life, awd groaning beneath a Heap of Rubbifb. = A famous modern Poe us'd to [acrifice every year a Statius to-Virgil's Manes : and I have IyBut wow; My Lord too late, that I have gone 200 far s for I'resnember fome Verfes of my own Maximin and Almanzo this 1s m part of ou 21, oo ;m‘md which cry Vengeance upon me for their Extravagance and which Twif the iig'sir\ of heartily in the fame fire with Statius and Chapman Al I'can -fay fo i ok /.'Im'i':' /:; thofe paffages, which are I hope not many, is, that I knew they were ba ':'J.'Jlff [ /:'.:Z.' vIN J enough to pleafe,even when I'writ them: But I'repent of them amongff m Sins : and if any of their fellows intrude by chance into my prefent Wri tings, I draw affroke over all thofe Dalilahs of the Theatre ; and am refolv'd I will fettle my [elf no- reputation by the applaufe of fools. Ti wot that I am mortified to all ambition, ézt I [corn as much to take # from half-witted Fudges; as I fhow'd to raife an Effate by cheating o Neither do T'difcommend the lofty flyle in Tragedy which #s Bubbles naturally poripous and magnificent : but nothing is truly [ublime that isnot juft and proper. If the Ancients had judgd by the fame meafure wlkh g trifie ca whic a commo Readér takes, they had concluded Statius to have'wri ten higher than Virgil: for Que fuperimpofito molés geminata Coloflo carries a more thundring kind of found than Tityre tu patule recubans fub tegmine fagi Tet Virgil had al} theMajefty of ‘a lawfull Prince; and Statius omely th blufbring of a Tyrant. . But when men affelt' a Vertue whick they canno reach; they fall into-aVice, whick' bears the neareft refemblance of 'it Thus an injadicious Poet who aims at Loftine[s runs eafily into the fwellin pufiie ftyle, becaufe it looks: like Greatnefs. I'remember, when I'was Boy I thought inimitable Spencer a umea Loc y_comparifon of: Syl'- 0l from the Ly I"."?, woow th i U " :M} f' 
