Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Critical, Poetical, and Dramatic Works, Vol. 2
There is this advantage in the imitation of a mo ral or critical poem over an original work of the same sort, that the reader is enabled, at a single glance, to perceive exactly how far any rule of right conduct or good composition is universal, and fitted for ages and countries widely removed from one another; while to the lover of the ancients, it may consecrate, as classical, the manners or litera ture of modern ones. It is, besides, of the nature, and has in a great degree the force of quotation its positions constantly resting upon some respectable authority, and deriving from it additional use and consequence. To give it due effect, especially when the brilliant colouring, and fine random touches of a great poet are wanting, it is necessary to adhere very closely to those laws proper to it, which are dic tated by plain common sense, and prior observa tion. One of the principal of them has been sug gested lately by Mr. Boscawen, who, in a criticism upon Pope's imitation of the r-second epistle and second book of Horace, finds fault with one pas sage as being strained, and unlike an original Bfi.
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