21 6 remarks on the critique of Pope. FeT). 8. 



•acquaintance is of the same taste. Pope speaks with 

 infinite contempt of Laurence Eusden. This writer 

 ti-anslated the Greek story of Hero and Leander, in- 

 to Englifh verse not lefs elegant than that of January 

 and May, by Pope. In perusing the pastorals of 

 Philips, the reader will not find that marked inferio- 

 rity, which he may have expected. 



An old correspondent. 



REMARKS ON THE ABOVE. 

 The above Iketch is drawn with a bold outline, and 

 lively colouring j many of our readers will, probab- 

 ly with reason, suspect that it is not in all respects 

 accurately just. That Pope's body was weak, and 

 his temper splenetic is well k^iown ; and that his 

 vefses might have, at times, through carelefsnefs and 

 inattention, been tinctured by these weaknefses,is no- 

 thing surprising. No human composition is perfect ; 

 and it is only by counterbalancing the evil with the 

 good, that a just judgement can be formed. Among 

 the many verses he wrote, there may be faulty lines, 

 there may be pafsages which his friends would wifh 

 had never seen the light ; but at the same time it 

 bught never to be forgotten, that he has written a 

 greater number oi good lines, when taken singly, than, 

 .Shakespeare excepted, almost any other poet in the 

 Englifli langu3ge. 



