Capitolo 60
so a lot we admire in the compositions of the venerable old men, and what
nobody diverts from but those that want strength of genius to do a
the shine of thought in his own natural beauties. Poets that want this
strength of genius to give that stately simplicity to nature that
so a lot we admire in the jobs of the venerable old men, it is forced to chase
after foreign ornaments, and not to do some piece of the intelligence of that that
kind soevers escape them. I repute these writers as Goths in
poetry that, as that in architecture, not being able to come on
to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greek and Romans, has
endeavoured to provide his/her place with all the squanderings of a
irregular desire. The Mr. Dryden makes a very beautiful observation on
Ovid is writing a letter from Dido to AEneas, in the following words:
"Ovid", it says him speaking of the fiction of Virgil of Dido and AEneas,,
"takings it on later him, also in the same age, and ago a venerable old man
heroin of the Dido new-created of Virgil; laws a letter for her only
before his/her death to the ungrateful fugitive, and, very unfortunately for
he, is for measuring a sword with a man so a lot of superior in
forces to him on the same subject. I think that I can be judge of this,
because I have translated both. The famous author of 'The Art of
Love' it doesn't have anything of his really; he takes in loan all from a greater master
in his/her his/her own profession, and that it is worse it doesn't improve anything that
he finds. Nature fails him/it; and, being forced to his/her old turn, him
you/he/she has resorted to the keenness. This passes indeed with his/her rubber bands
admirers, and it gives him the preference to Virgil in their respect."
It was not me I sustained from so great an authority like that of the Mr. Dryden,
I should not risk to observe me that the taste of the most greater part of ours
Poets English as the readers, are extremely Gothic. He quotes
Monsieur Segrais for a distinction of threefold of the readers of
poetry; in the first one of what he understands the riotous crowd of readers,