[127]. Vide ed. cit., ii. 417, and especially iii. 389-91, a long note of very great interest. I do not know whether Hurd had condescended to take a hint from the humble dissenting Mason (v. inf.)
[128]. He was born only twenty years after the death of Dryden, and died the year before Tennyson was born.
[129]. My copy in 10 vols. (London, 1777) appears to be made up of different editions of the separate books—the fifth of the Horace and Dialogues, the third of the Cowley.
[130]. These qualities are particularly shown in a really admirable note, ii. 107-15, on the method and art of criticism, with special reference to Longinus, Bouhours, and Addison. Hurd is, however, once more, and in more detail, too severe on Addison. It may be repeated that Lessing pays very particular attention to Hurd in the Hamburgische Dramaturgie, and speaks of him with great respect.
[131]. ii. 153.
[132]. ii. 154.
[133]. ii. 220.
[134]. Almost too liberal, as where he falls foul of Jeremias Holstenius for saying the plain truth that “but for the Argonautics, there had been no fourth book of the Æneis” (iii. 49).
[135]. iii. 153.
[136]. P. 464.