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FOOTNOTES
[1] That satire is primarily destructive criticism was asserted by Heinsius in a familiar passage quoted approvingly by Dryden in his Essay on Satire:—“Satire is a kind of poetry—in which human vices, ignorance, and errors, and all things besides, which are produced from them in every man, are severely reprehended.” The same theory is expressed by De Gubernatis in his Storia della Satira:—“La satira è, sovra ogni cosa, una negazione.”
[2] See Poetry, VII, 1.
[3] In the Preface to Absalom and Achitophel, Dryden is inclined to take pride in his fairness:—“I have but laughed at some men’s follies, when I could have declaimed against their vices; and other men’s virtues I have commended, as freely as I have taxed their crimes.”
[4] Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II., 212–217.
[5] See Chesterton’s Pope and the Art of Satire.
[6] Both methods are illustrated in a line of the Dunciad:—
“My H—ley’s periods, or my Blackmore’s numbers.”