[24] Preface to The Trueborn Englishmen.
[25] Preface to his translation of Aristophanes.
[26] The Task: The Time-Piece.
His object is to point out the superiority of the preacher, who steps in
“* * * when the sat’rist has at last
Strutting and vaporing in an empty school,
Spent all his force and made no proselyte.”
Later, however, he inadvertently admits even clerical insufficiency:
“Since pulpits fail, and sounding boards reflect
Most part an empty ineffectual sound,