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,

То

THE REVEREND

DR YOUNG,

RECTOR

Of WELWYN in HERTFORDSHIRE.

DEAR SIR,

Pretirement,

ERMIT me to break into your retirement, the refidence of virtue

with

and literature, and to trouble you
a few reflections on the merits and real
character of an admired author, and
on other collateral subjects of criticism,
that will naturally arife in the course of
fuch an enquiry. No love of fingula-
rity, no affectation of paradoxical opi-
nions, gave rife to the following work.

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I revere