[45] The late right honourable CHARLES YORKE; who to all the learning
of his own profession had joined an exact taste, and very extensive
knowledge, of polite literature. What follows is an extract from a
long letter which this excellent person did me the honour to write to
me on the subject of these letters, when he had read them in the first
edition.
[46] See the _Memoir_, just quoted.
[47] Mr. WARTON’S Observations on SPENSER, vol. i. p. 175.
[48] Don QUIXOTE, b. iv. c. 22.
[49] Mr. WARTON, _Obs. on the F. Q._ p. 7. vol. i. _Lond._ 1762.
[50] Lord SHAFTESBURY, _Adv. to an Author_.
[51] _Adv. to an Author_, Part III. S. II.
[52] _Spectator_, vol. i. N^{o} 5. vol. v. N^{o} 369.
[53] For an account of some other wonders in Romance, such as
_enchanted arms_, _invulnerable bodies_, _flying horses_, &c. see
_L’Esprit des Loix_, l. xxviii. c. 22.
[54] VOLTAIRE, _Essai sur la Poësie Epique_, ch. vii.
[55] A celebrated writer, whose good sense, or whose perverseness,
would not suffer him to be the dupe of French prejudices, declares
himself roundly of this opinion: “On a voulu mettre en _representation_
(says he, speaking of the absurd magnificence of the _French_ Opera) le
MERVEILLEUX, qui, n’etant fait que pour être imaginé, EST AUSSI BIEN
PLACE DANS UN POEME EPIQUE que ridiculement sur un theatre.” [_Nouv.
Heloise_, p. II. l. xxiii.]
[56] Sir W. DAVENANT’S Preface.
[57] Θεῖος ὄνειρος. HOMER.
[58] Mr. HOBBES’S Letter.
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