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10 RIDICULE. Ch. XII.
others, and digressing from himself, as often as he {hall
see occasion ; he will desire no more ingredients to-
wards fitting up a treatise that ssiall make a very come-
lyfigure on a bookseller’s flielf, there to be preserved
neat and clean , for a long eternity, adorned with the
heraldry of its title fairly inscribed on a label ; never
to bethumbed or greased by {Indents, nor bound to
everlasting chains of darkness in a library*; but when
the fullness of time is come , ssiall happily undergo the
trial of purgatory, in order to afcend the Iky 9.
I cannot but congratulate our age on this peculiar fe-
licity, that though we have made indeed great progress
in all other branches of luxury , we are not yet de-
bauch’d with any high relijh in poetry, but are in this
one taste le'ss nice than our ancestors.
If the R.everend clergy {ssowed more concern than
others, I charitably impute it to their great charge of
souls; and what confirmed me in this opinion was ,
that the degrees of apprehension and terror could be
distinguished to be greater or less, according to their
ranks and degrees in the church 1
A parody must be distinguished from every spe-
cies of ridicule : it enlivens a gay subjedt by imi-
tating some important incident that is serious : it
9 Tale of a Tub, seet. .
'3 A true and faithful narrative of what palled in Lon-
don during the general consternation of all ranks and de-
grees of mankind.
others, and digressing from himself, as often as he {hall
see occasion ; he will desire no more ingredients to-
wards fitting up a treatise that ssiall make a very come-
lyfigure on a bookseller’s flielf, there to be preserved
neat and clean , for a long eternity, adorned with the
heraldry of its title fairly inscribed on a label ; never
to bethumbed or greased by {Indents, nor bound to
everlasting chains of darkness in a library*; but when
the fullness of time is come , ssiall happily undergo the
trial of purgatory, in order to afcend the Iky 9.
I cannot but congratulate our age on this peculiar fe-
licity, that though we have made indeed great progress
in all other branches of luxury , we are not yet de-
bauch’d with any high relijh in poetry, but are in this
one taste le'ss nice than our ancestors.
If the R.everend clergy {ssowed more concern than
others, I charitably impute it to their great charge of
souls; and what confirmed me in this opinion was ,
that the degrees of apprehension and terror could be
distinguished to be greater or less, according to their
ranks and degrees in the church 1
A parody must be distinguished from every spe-
cies of ridicule : it enlivens a gay subjedt by imi-
tating some important incident that is serious : it
9 Tale of a Tub, seet. .
'3 A true and faithful narrative of what palled in Lon-
don during the general consternation of all ranks and de-
grees of mankind.