&c., Written on Several Subjects: with a Dissertation Concerning the Perfection of the English Language, the State of Poetry, &c. By Mr. Welsted. Page 355. Duke of Newcastle. Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768), was a prominent but undistinguished figure in politics who incidentally patronized some men of letters without being specially interested in literature. Later in the Dissertation he is referred to as Holles. Page 360. And what . . . be. Pope, Essay on Criticism, 483. Page 363. two memorable Princes. Augustus Cæsar and Cosimo dei Medici (?). Page 368. Valerius Maximus has affirmed. De Dictis, 5. 4, Ext. 5. Page 369. a Translation. Of Longinus, On the Sublime. For the opinion referred to, see this treatise, Section II. Page 370. Essayers in Rhime. With the exception of the first two, these quotations are all from Mulgrave, Essay upon Poetry, as follows: 246-247, 244-245, 73-74, 81-82, 126, 185-188, 229, 248249, 262-264, 269, 346. The first two are quoted from A Grammar of the English Tongue, with the Arts of Logick, Rhetorick Poetry, &c. (1711), pp. 145 and 146. Page 374. Sapere. Page 375. Descriptas Page 379. This Author fons. Horace, Ars Poetica, 309. salutor. Ib. 86-87. .. tells us. Dryden, Dedication of the Æneis (Essays, ed. Ker, 2. 217). Page 381. that other. I.e., Newton's. -Mr. Cowley . . has said. I cannot find precisely this. Possibly Welsted had in mind Cowley's interest in experimental as opposed to theoretical science as set forth in the preface to A Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy. Page 383. a whole Oration. Cicero, Pro Archia. Page 385. A late very popular Author. Addison. Page 387. Mr. Philips. Ambrose Philips (1675?-1749). For the recommendation of Welsted's poems, see the Freethinker, Nos. 98, 99, 112. This periodical was edited and chiefly written by Philips. It ran from March 24, 1718, to September 28, 1719. -Sir William Temple . says. Cf. pages 47-48 and note. Commendation by Scaliger. Poetices 6. 7 (ed. Page 389. 1651, p. 339a). -Dacier is not less sensible. Oeuvres d'Horace, 4. 84. The quotation on page 391 directly follows this. Page 391. Sir William Temple . . . takes a Step. Essentially the point of a passage in the Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning (Spingarn, op. cit., 3. 47-48). -Seneca's Words. Epist. Moral. 13. 3. 37. Page 393. Afranius. This conceivably applies to L. Afranius (fl.c. 94 B. C.), the writer of comedies; but, more probably, to an unidentified writer nearly contemporary with Welsted. Page 394. words of Quintilian. 1. 62. Oratoria Institutiones, 10. ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758) This preface is taken from The Ever Green, being a selection of Scots Poems, wrote by the Ingenious before 1600. Edinburgh, 1724. The original is printed in italics. Page 399. our . . Makers of Pastorals. Cf., e.g., Pope, Pastorals, 2. 66, 3. 79. BIBLIOGRAPHY The following list of critical writings published between 1700 and 1725 has been compiled largely from contemporary newspapers and periodicals. Only a portion of the material dealing with individual writers or works has been included. Practically no mention is made of works containing only isolated sentences of a critical character. Anonymous. A New Session of the Poets, occasion'd by the An Epistle to Sir Richard Blackmore, occasion'd by the New A Pacquet from Parnassus: Or, a Collection of Papers, viz 1702. A Short Defence of the Comparison of the two Stages. By "Henry Ramble." 1702. Satira in Poetastros O - C- ensis. 1702. The Parliament of Criticks, the Menippaan Satyr of Justus Religio Poeta, or, a Satyr upon our English Poets. 1703. A Panegyrick Epistle (Wherein is given An Impartial B On his most Incomparable Incomprehensible Poem, call'd Advice to the Poets. 1706. The Muses Mercury, or the Monthly Miscellany. January, 1707, to January, 1708. [ed. Oldmixon?] The Scrutiny . . . with . . . Reflections upon Cyder, Cen- Milton's Sublimity asserted, in a Poem occasion'd by a late 1709. |