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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 autori-
bus, fed omnibus poetis, præferre non dubitent.

QUINTILIAN.

LONDON,

PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL.

MDCCLXXII,

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то

THE REVEREND

DR YOUNG,

RECTOR

Of WELWYN in HERTFORDSHIRE.

DEAR SIR,

PERM

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.

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