Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 8: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Mmmlmus more impartial: no man ever rhymed truer rener than be: yet, he is (0 juit as to confefs, is but a trifle; and to wilk the tyrant dethroned, dank Verfe (ct up in its room. There is athird I, the living glory of our Engliih Poetry, who (claimed the ufe of it upon the Stage: though no ver employed it there fo happily as he. It was gth of his Genius, that firfi brought it into in Plays; and it is the force of his example that irown it out again. In other kinds of writing, it rues (till; and will do (0, till fome excellent fpi ifes, that has leifure enough, and refolution to the Charm, and free us from the troublefome ge of rhyming, as Mr. Milton very well calls it; as proved it as well, by what he has wrote in er way. But, this is a thought for times at fome cc; the prefent age is a little too warlike; it may ps fnrnilh out matter for a good Poem in the next, will hardly encourage one now without pro ing, a man may eafily know what fort of laurelsthoughts very well always, that, when they have need of the fame fen they cannot put it into other words, but it mull be to its prejudice. Care has been taken in this Book to get together every thing of Mr. Ivaller's that is not put into the former collection fo that between both, the Reader may make the fet complete. It will perhaps be contended after all, that fome of thel'e ought not to have been publilhed and Mr. Cowley's decilion will be urged, that a neat tomb op marble is a better monument than a great pile of rub hilb. It might be anfwered to this, that the Pictures, and Poems, of great Matters have been always valued, though the laft hand were not put to them. And I be lieve none of thofe Gentlemen that will make the oh icaion, would rcfufe a {ketch of Raphael's, or one of T itian's draughts of the firi't fitting. I might tell them too, what care has been taken by the learned, to pre ferve the fragments of the antient Greek and Latin Poets: there has been thought to be a Divinity in what they. Aid; and therefore the lealt pieces of it have been kept up, and reverenced like religious reliques. And. 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.