_Various Readings in the Life of_ PHILIPS.
'His dreaded [rival] _antagonist_ Pope.
They [have not often much] _are not loaded with_ thought.
In his translations from Pindar, he [will not be denied to have reached]
_found the art of reaching_ all the obscurity of the Theban bard.'
_Various Readings in the Life of_ CONGREVE.
'Congreve's conversation must surely have been _at least_ equally
pleasing with his writings.
It apparently [requires] _pre-supposes_ a familiar knowledge of many
characters.
Reciprocation of [similes] _conceits_.
The dialogue is quick and [various] _sparkling_.
Love for Love; a comedy [more drawn from life] _of nearer alliance to
life_.
The general character of his miscellanies is, that they shew little wit
and [no] _little_ virtue.
[Perhaps] _certainly_ he had not the fire requisite for the higher
species of lyrick poetry.'
_Various Readings in the Life of_ TICKELL.
'[Longed] _long wished_ to peruse it.
At the [accession] _arrival_ of King George.
Fiction [unnaturally] _unskilfully_ compounded of Grecian deities and
Gothick fairies.'
_Various Readings in the Life of_ AKENSIDE.
'For [another] _a different_ purpose.
[A furious] _an unnecessary_ and outrageous zeal.
[Something which] _what_ he called and thought liberty.
A [favourer of innovation] _lover of contradiction_.
Warburton's [censure] _objections_.
His rage [for liberty] _of patriotism_.