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“ which it gives of a concurrence in sentiment upon critical sub- 
Re ects with persons of distinguished ingenuity and erudition. 
“ Such a discovery makes a man more confident in the justness of 
“ his own sentiments. I have only to add, that your illustrations 
“ of the general si and your examples fr om the ancients, 
“ please me exceedingly.” 
The opinion of Dr Campsett was very soon justified by the 
voice of the literary world ; and 1 believe that there is no work 
of literary criticism which this country has produced, that so 
soon attained celebrity in England, as the Essay on Translation. 
The different reviewers of the day, contended with each other in 
the earliness of their notice, and in the liberality of their praise. 
The most celebrated scholars of England, Dr Mari«nam, Arch- 
bishop of York, Dr Dovcxas, Bishop of Salisbury, Dr Percy, 
Bishop of Dromore, Dr Vincent, of Westminster, and Dr Wat- 
son of Winchester Schools, wrote to the author in terms of high 
approbation. “ Were I not afraid,” says Mr Murpny, the well- 
known translator of Tacitus, in a letter to the author, “ of be- 
“ ing thought a dealer in compliment, I should say, that I esteem 
“ it the best performance I have ever seen on the subject. In- 
genious hints, and cursory remarks, are to be found in many 
“ authors, ancient and modern; but they remained scattered, and 
“ nothing like a regular system has been formed until now.” And 
Mr Cumpertanp, the extent of whose learning, and the fertili- 
ty of whose genius gave so much value to his opinion, was so 
much delighted with the work, and so grateful for the just 
praise which Mr Tytter had bestowed upon his admirable 
translations from the fragments of Greek comedy, that he 
wrote to his friend Sir Wittiam Forsrs, to beg of him to pro- 
cure Mr Tytxer’s permission to dedicate to him a translation 
of The Clouds of AxisrorHanes, which he was then preparing, 
and which the praise of so distinguished a critic had encouraged 
3Y2 him 
