AN E S SAY ON THE GENIUS AND WRITINGS O F POP E. J Wartor The SECOND EDITION, Corrected. Satyra quidem tota noftra eft: in qua primus infignem laudem adeptus eft Lucilius; qui quofdam ita deditos fibi adhuc habet amatores, ut eum, non ejufdem modo operis autoribus, fed omnibus poetis, præferre non dubitent. QUINTILIAN. LONDON, PRINTED FOR R. AND J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL. то THE REVEREND DR. YOUNG, RECTOR Of WELWYN in HERTFORDSHIRE. DEAR SIR, PE ERMIT me to break into your retirement, the refidence of virtue and literature, and to trouble you with a few reflections on the merits and real character of an admired author, and on other collateral fubjects of criticism, that will naturally arife in the course of fuch an enquiry. No love of fingularity, no affectation of paradoxical opinions, gave rise to the following work. I revere a 2 |