By THOMAS WARTON, Μ. Α. FELLOW OF TRINITY-COLLEGE, and PROFESSOR OF POETRY LONDON, Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY, in Pall- Mall; MDCCLXII, F EW poets appear to have composed with greater rapidity than Spenfer. Hurried away by the impetuosity of imagination, he frequently cannot find time to attend to the niceties of construction; or to stand still and revise what he had before written, in order to prevent contradictions, inconsistencies, and repetitions. Hence it is, that he not only fails in the connection of single words, but of circumstances; not only violates the rules of grammar, but of probability, truth, and propriety. A review of these faults, which flow perhaps from that cause which produced his greatest beauties, will B2 821-3 tend 128531 574830A 1-2 |