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THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

•* Pope bet imitated this piece with his ufual elegance of di&ionand harmony of verification; but in the mean time, hebasnotonlymifreprefentcd the ftory, but marred the charafier of thepoem. Hehas endeavoured to correflits extravagancies by new refinements andadditions of another call: but he did not confider that extravaganciesare clTential to a poem of fuch a firuSure, and even conftilute itsbcautiei. An attempt to unite order and exadoefs of imagery with afubjed formed on principles fo profeffedly romantic and anomalous,is like giving Corinthian pillars to a Gothic palace. When I readPope 's elegant imitation of this piece, I think I am walking amongthe modern monuments unfuitably placed in Wcftminfter Abbey.”

History of English Poetry, Vol. ii.