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Where he is so insipid, that nothing can be struck out for the reader's entertainment, I shall observe Horace's rule: "Quae desperes tractata nitescere posse, relinquas." Upon which account I shall say nothing of that great instance of his candour and judgment in relation to Dr. He also published a "Rational Account of the Protestant Religion" in 1664.
Et quae Desperat, tractata nitescere posse, relinquit. In Bartholomew Fair, or the lowest kind of Comedy, that degree of heightening is used which is proper to set off that subject.
Lucan in this passage is infinitely too precise, and exhausts his muse in a number of particulars, where he had better have been more succinct and select. He displays the prolific exuberance of a young poet, who had not yet taught himself the multiplied advantages of compression. He had not learned the principle, Relinquere quae desperat tractata nitescere posse.
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