The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 21: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical; The Poems of Buckingham and Lansdowne (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 21: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical; The Poems of Buckingham and Lansdowne

I 6 fome envy, I was loth to be informed how an epic poem thould be written, or how a tragedy {hould be contrived and managed in better vcrfe, and with more judgment, than I could teach others. I gave the unknown author his due commendation, I mutt confefs; but who can anfwcr for me, and for the reft of the poets who heard me read the poem, whether we fhould not have been better pleafed to have feen our own names at the bottom of the title-page? Perhaps we commended it the more, that we might feem to be above the cenfure, Ste.

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