My mother is much better this Summer than ought to be not having seen. Mrs Knight; 0 that I am sick every other day as usual this day for one : but muly & always, Your most affectionate Published as the Act directs from the Drigined Jan 1806 AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND WRITINGS OF POPE. IN TWO VOLUMES. By JOSEPH WARTON, D. D. VOL. I. THE FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED. To which is now added, AN INDE X. Satyra quidem tota nostra est: in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus est QUINTILIAN. LONDON: Printed by Thomas Maiden, Sherbourn-Lane, Lombard-Street, FOR W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON; OTRIDGE AND SON; J. WALKER; Оне I cannot omit to return D return you my best Thanks for your very obliging present, from the Jerizal of which Than esived quat pleasure as well as information. -ought perhaps & regut that so valuable a piece of criticism was not sooner communicated If the world; but, in another light, I confess I must ansider the publication of it at the present moment as a fortivate circumstance, for the interests of taste and that your book d good letters. I am in hopes may from a timely antidote & that poison, (weet wet poison, and suited, Ipear too well, :tooth, ) with which we have been lately overflound & the ages Under the shelter of your authority, & avow an may perhaps venti -opinion, that Poetry is not confined Briming complets, and that it's greatest powers spilegues. Welbeck Thut 22 Jan 19 1782. an not displayed I am, Sir, with real respect, Your most obedient humble Sewart |