Garth, catching the feeling of the time, sung--

And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle.

Posterity justly appreciates the volume of Bentley for its stores

of ancient literature; and the author, for that peculiar sagacity

in emending a corrupt text, which formed his distinguishing

characteristic as a classical critic; and since his book but for this

literary quarrel had never appeared, reverses the names in the

verse of the "Satirist."

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