[7] “There appears in every part of his [Horace’s] diction, or (to speak English) in all his expressions, a kind of noble and bold purity.”—Ibid., p. 266.
[8] “Lives”: Dryden, ed. G. B. Hill (1905), Vol. I, p. 420; and cp. Goldsmith, “Poetry Distinguished from other Writing” (Miscellaneous Works), 1821, Vol. IV, p. 381 foll.
[9] “Letters” (To R. West), 1742, ed. Tovey (1900); Vol. II, pp. 97-8.
[10] Ker, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 17-8.
[11] Ibid., pp. 188 foll.
[12] Ker, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 234.
[13] Edward Young, the author of “Night Thoughts,” was later to express this tersely enough: “Words tarnished, by passing through the mouths of the vulgar, are laid aside as inelegant and obsolete”—”Conjectures on Original Composition,” 1759 (“English Critical Essays,” Oxford, 1922, p. 320).
[14] Pope’s Works, ed. Courthope and Elwin: “Life,” Vol. V, p. 69.
[15] That is to say, as Mr. John Drinkwater has recently put it, it was “the common language, but raised above the common pitch, of the coffee-houses and boudoirs.”—“Victorian Poetry,” 1923, pp. 30-32.
[16] Vide Elton, “The Augustan Ages,” 1889, pp. 419 foll.