Capitolo 38
Ut pictura poesis erit -
HOR., Poet of Ars. 361.
Poems as withdraws I am.
Nothing is admired so a lot, and so few understood, as intelligence. No
author about that I know has avowedly written on him. As for those
who do some mention of it, them they only treat on the subject as it has
accidentally fallen in their way, and that also in small shortly
reflections, or in general declamatory it blooms, without entering
in the fund of the matter. I hope, therefore, I will perform
an acceptable job to my farmers if I treat to great on this
subject; what I am able endeavour to do in a way appropriated to him,
what I cannot incur in the censorship on which gives a famous critic
one that you/he/she had written an essay on "the sublime", in a minimum
creeping style. I intend placed apart a whole week for this
undertaking, that the scheme of my thoughts cannot be broken and
interrupted; and I challenge promise me, if my readers will give me a
the attention of week for which this great urban wish is changed a lot
the best from next Saturday evening. I am able endeavour to do that that me
says intelligible to ability to the agenda; but if my readers meet with
some paper that in of his parts you/he/she can be a little out an of them
arrivals, I would not have discouraged them, for them you/they can assure
them the next one very they will be clearer.
As the great one and the only goal of this my speculations are to banish vice
and the ignorance out of the territories of Great Britain, I am able,
endeavour, as much as possible, to establish among us a taste of
kind writing. It is with this sight that I have endeavoured to put
my readers right in many points relative to works and the tragedies,
and it is able, at times imparts my notions of comedy as me,
you think that they can mind his/her refinement and perfection. I find from mine
bookseller that these papers of the criticism, with that on humour,
you/he/she has met with a some reception of kind that indeed I would have been able to hope
for from such subjects; for that the reason I will enter on mine