There
cannot be a question that the author had a friendship for Philips, or
he would not have ranked him with Theocritus, Virgil, and Spenser;
and it is equally certain that he was not an admirer of the Pastorals
of Pope, which are passed over in silence, and which violate the
canons laid down by the critic.
cannot be a question that the author had a friendship for Philips, or
he would not have ranked him with Theocritus, Virgil, and Spenser;
and it is equally certain that he was not an admirer of the Pastorals
of Pope, which are passed over in silence, and which violate the
canons laid down by the critic.
Alexander Pope - v01
