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Excerpt from Lessons in Criticism to William Roscoe, Esq. F. R. S: Member of the Della Crusca Society of Florence, F. R. S. L. In Answer to His Letter to the Reverend W. L. Bowles on the Character and Poetry of Pope; With Further Lessons in Criticism to a Quarterly Reviewer It was Lord byron who rang the peal on nature and art! As Lord byron, in his unsubstantiated but skewy rhetoric, brought various instances to Me, Win every instance enumerated, from the ship on the sea to the fallen ternples of Athens, poetry derived her most interesting materialsfrom works qfart; it was necessary to prove that all his instances, so far from establishing his position, with the sea, - the light - the wind, -the storm - the air, moral associations of power over the vast element on which these added to the poetical interest. Derive their poetical interest fiom moral associations, tradi it were, in self-deferwe, to follow Lord B YR on's instances. 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.