A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

by George Saintsbury

[288]. i. 224, &c.

[289]. iii. 173.

[290]. i. 35.

[291]. i. 147 sq.

[292]. i. 157 sq.

[293]. iii. 125.

[294]. i. 163 sq.

[295]. The lively fashion in which Dr George Campbell in his Philosophy of Rhetoric (v. sup., ii. [470]) beats up his lordship’s quarters, on the score of precious and rococo style, is too much forgotten nowadays.

[296]. The literary essays occur almost wholly in the First part (published in 1742: my copy is the “new edition” of the Essays and Treatises, 2 vols.: London and Edinburgh, 1764).

[297]. Essay on Delicacy of Taste, pp. 5, 7, ed. cit.