An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Criticism
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ans deserve the Scandal of Plagiarism. I cannot doubt, but Mr. Addison in the sublime Thought, where he represents the Duke of Marlborough in the Heat of the War:
Rides in the Whirlwind, and directs the Storm;
did nor forget these two Lines of Boileau to the King:
Serene himself the stormy War he guides, And o'er the Battle like a God presides.
I shall all along, through this Discourse, take the Liberty to pass from one Subject to another as the Hint offers, without any Method, according to the Freedom of Essays. Mr. Dryden excuses this Freedom, by the Example of Horace's Epistle to the Piso's, which is immethodical and I must excuse my self by Mr. Dryden's--
The Taste and Appetite of these straw Criticks, may justly be compar'd to Ravens and Crows, who neglecting clean Food, are always searching after Carrion.
Horace's Rule is very well worth observing, when we
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