Excerpt from The Peace of the Augustans: A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literature as a Place of Rest and Refreshment It is probably unnecessary to say more. But the author may perhaps be permitted to observe that, if he has Often been found fault with for paying too exclusive attention to form and treatment, that charge will hardly lie here. To omit consideration of form2 entirely would be treason to literature; but there are notoriously few stretches of ours which need less constant and minute examination of it than this; and the very title Of this book promises preferential dealing with matter and thought and temperament. Let us hope that the promise will be kept. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.