To [set] _engage_ poetry [on the side] _in the cause_ of virtue.
He likewise [established] _enforced_ the truth of Revelation.
[Kindness] _benevolence_ was ashamed to favour.
His practice, which was once [very extensive] _invidiously great_.
There is scarcely any distemper of dreadful name [of] which he has not
[shewn] _taught his reader_ how [it is to be opposed] _to oppose_.
Of this [contemptuous] _indecent_ arrogance.
[He wrote] _but produced_ likewise a work of a different kind.
At least [written] _compiled_ with integrity.
Faults which many tongues [were desirous] _would have made haste_ to
publish.
But though he [had not] _could not boast of_ much critical knowledge.
He [used] _waited for_ no felicities of fancy.
Or had ever elevated his [mind] _views_ to that ideal perfection which
every [mind] _genius_ born to excel is condemned always to pursue and
never overtake.
The [first great] _fundamental_ principle of wisdom and of virtue.'
_Various Readings in the Life of_ PHILIPS.
'His dreaded [rival] _antagonist_ Pope.
They [have not often much] _are not loaded with_ thought.
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