Biographical Sketch of Henry Vaughan. among us. He principal collections of the British poets were made at a time when the tafte for French correctness was in the afcendant This may in fome measure account for the fact that so many smooth fo Rhymfters, such as Pomfret, Yalden, Lanfdown, &c, have been placed on that auguft lift, while Lord Brooke, the Fletchers, Withers, Herrick, Habington, and Quarles, have been excluded from it; and it is only when fome happy accident brings these writers and their productions under our notice, that we discover how many of the true poets of England have been pushed from their places, to make room for mere |