Dryden
has in some Places, which I may hereafter take notice of, misrepresented
Virgil's
way of thinking as to this Particular, in the Translation he has given us of the
Æneid
. I do not remember that
Homer
any where falls into the Faults above-mentioned, which were indeed the false Refinements of later Ages.
Milton
, it must be confest, has sometimes erred in this Respect, as I shall shew more at large in another Paper; tho' considering how all the Poets of the Age in which he writ were infected with this wrong way of thinking, he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it, than that he did sometimes comply with the vicious Taste which still prevails so much among Modern Writers.