on the Prospect of Peace
, and which, I hope, will meet with such a Reward from its Patrons, as so noble a Performance deserves. I was particularly
pleased to find that the Author had not amused himself with Fables out of the Pagan Theology, and that when he hints at any thing of
this
nature, he alludes to it only as to a Fable.
Many of our Modern Authors, whose Learning very often extends no farther than
Ovid's Metamorphosis
, do not know how to celebrate a Great Man, without mixing a parcel of School-Boy Tales with the Recital of his Actions. If you read a Poem on a fine Woman, among the Authors of this Class, you shall see that it turns more upon