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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. 5
should occupy a corner in every carriage,
and be called forth in every interval of
leisure to relieve the fatigue and to heighten
the pleasure of the journey. Familiar ac-
quaintance or rather bosom intimacy with
the ancients is evidently the first and most
essential accomplishment of a classical
traveller.
But there is a class of Poets who, though
nearly allied in language, sentiments, and
country, to the ancients, are yet in general
little known; I mean the modern Latin
poets, Vida, Sannazarius, Fracastorius,
Flaminius, Politian, &c. * who laboured
so successfully to restore the pure taste of
antiquity. Boileau and the French critics
* Pope printed, or rather, I believe, reprinted with
additions, a collection of poems from these authors in two
volumes duodecimo. The Clarendon press gave the
public a superb specimen of typographical elegance, in
an edition of Vida, in three volumes octavo, in the years
22, 23, 24, of the last century.
should occupy a corner in every carriage,
and be called forth in every interval of
leisure to relieve the fatigue and to heighten
the pleasure of the journey. Familiar ac-
quaintance or rather bosom intimacy with
the ancients is evidently the first and most
essential accomplishment of a classical
traveller.
But there is a class of Poets who, though
nearly allied in language, sentiments, and
country, to the ancients, are yet in general
little known; I mean the modern Latin
poets, Vida, Sannazarius, Fracastorius,
Flaminius, Politian, &c. * who laboured
so successfully to restore the pure taste of
antiquity. Boileau and the French critics
* Pope printed, or rather, I believe, reprinted with
additions, a collection of poems from these authors in two
volumes duodecimo. The Clarendon press gave the
public a superb specimen of typographical elegance, in
an edition of Vida, in three volumes octavo, in the years
22, 23, 24, of the last century.