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In a letter of expostulation to Warton, Mason did not go the length of disclaiming the satire, though he was angry enough that it should be laid at his door. I have heard that he received with much apathy the praises offered him by Hayley, in the Essay on Epic Poetry.
Then we mustn't talk here," added Warton, apparently somewhat alarmed. "Who told you so?" "I said one of the officers; and you know as well as I do which one." The speakers said no more, but leaving the locality near the berth, they moved forward in a body. Christy was sorry he was not to hear any more of the conversation; but he felt that he had made some progress in his work.
His chief works are A Collection of English Songs , Ancient Songs from Henry III. to the Revolution , A Collection of Scottish Songs , and A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, etc., relating to Robin Hood . Of a jealous and quarrelsome temper, R. was continually in controversy with his fellow-collectors and critics, including Johnson, Warton, and Percy.
Joseph Warton published, in 1756, the first volume of his Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, an elaborate review of Pope's writings seriatim, doing him certainly full justice, but ranking him below Shakspere, Spenser, and Milton.
That pleases these talkative old men. DR. BUSCH, quoted in Lowe's Prince Bismarck, i. 130. See ante, i. 470, for his disapproval of 'studied behaviour. Johnson had perhaps Dr. Warton in mind. Ante, ii. 41, note 1. See ante, i. 471, and iii. 165. 'Oblivion is a kind of annihilation. Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, sect. xxi. 'Nec te quaesiveris extra. Persius, Sat. i. 7.
The man and his wife were sitting together when I entered. The former had still the infant in his arms, and he rose to receive me with an air of good breeding and politeness, that staggered me from the contrast it afforded with his miserable condition his frightful poverty. "I have to ask your pardon," said I, "for this intrusion, but your name is Warton, I believe?"
After an interval of twenty-eight years, his rival, Mason, was probably sincere in the opinion he gave, that Warton had much excelled him both "in poetical imagery, and in the correct flow of his versification."
Warton, who was no lover of Sternhold and Hopkins' verses, calling them "the disgrace of sacred poetry," said of these attempted improvements, with vehemence, that "many stanzas already too naked and weak like a plain old Gothic edifice stripped of its signatures of antiquity, have lost that little and almost only strength and support which they derived from ancient phrases."
In the Middle Ages, in convents and churches, flourished the mysteries; but, says Warton, in the History of English Poetry, as learning increased, the practice of acting plays went over to the schools and universities.
I could not bear to see their languid glassy eyes, and hear their little voices imploring for the food God knows, I could not let them die before my face I could not be their murderer I could not " "Stay, Mr Warton," said I, interrupting the narrator, "I have heard enough. Spare me for the present. Your statements must be corroborated. This is all I ask. Leave the rest to me."
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