FOR fome time paft I had cherished an agre
able expectation, that the remainder of Pope's
works would be configned to my care, after the
new edition of his Homer, with continued notes
on both Iliad and Odyffey, fhould be delivered
to the public through my hands. But, in con-
fequence of a previous agreement, unknown to
me, privately contracted by Mr. Cadell with
Dr. Warton, and the rapidity of the Doctor in
a preoccupation of the prefs, this office has de-
volved upon him; a man, by elegance of tafte
and variety of literary information, eminently
qualified, beyond all controverfy, to adorn and
explain a poet, for delicacy of feeling, for accu-
racy of judgement, poignancy of wit, urbanity of
humour, vivacity of fancy, difcernment of human
character, folemnity of pathos, pregnancy of fen-
timent, rectitude of taste, comprehensive diction,
melodious numbers, and dignified morality,
without a rival in antient or modern times.
That my rambles, however, in this province,
thus intercepted, might not perifh to myself, I
have