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He was a son of Egypt, as he told me, And one descended from those dread magicians, Who waged rash war, when Israel dwelt in Goshen, With Israel and her Prophet matching rod With his, the son's of Levi's and encountering Jehovah's miracles with incantations, Till upon Egypt came the avenging Angel, And those proud sages wept for their first born, As wept the unletter'd peasant.
But neither will a generous spirit affect the empty sound of words; nor can a mind, unless enricht with learning, be deliver'd of a birth of poetry; there must be the purity of language, no porterly expression, or meanness, as I may call it, of words is to be admitted; but a stile perfectly above the common, and with Horace, "'Scorn the unletter'd herd, And drive 'em from you.
"addiction was to courses vain, His companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow," precisely like Shakespeare's courses and companions at Stratford "Had never noted in him any study." Stratford tradition, a century after Shakespeare left the town, did not remember "any study" in him; none had been "noted," nor could have been remembered.
In 1781 he published another volume of his poems with a poetical preface, in which he thus attacks his brother-in-law: 'To suits litigious, ignorant and raw, Compell'd by an unletter'd brother-in-law. Ib. 1781, p. 227. Boswell must have misheard what Johnson said. It was not Anson, but Amherst whom the bard praised. Ode, p. 7. Johnson wrote to Mrs.
To describe the civil wars of Rome would be a master-piece, the unletter'd head that offers at it, will sink beneath the weight of so great a work; for to relate past actions, is not so much the business of a poet, as an historian; the boundless genius of a poet strikes through all mazes, introduces gods, and puts the invention on the rack for poetick ornaments; that it may rather seem a prophetick fury, than a strict relation, with witnesses of meer truth.
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