ESSENCE OF MALONE, OR, The "BEAUTIES" OF SHAKSPEARE'S EDITOR. For thee I dim these eyes, and stuff this head Their heads were libraries out of order. POPE. A NOTE upon the DUNCIAD. SECOND PART. London: PRINTED FOR T. BECKET, PALL MALL. 1801. J. SMEETON, PRINTER, ST. MARTIN'S LANE. DIVISION THE SECOND OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PART THE FIRST. Edmond the Commentator. "And you, MALONE, to critic learning dear, [Courtenay. THE Canonizers of the Roman Calendar (excufe the pun!) waited, as we are told by Addison, till fifty years had elapsed, after the decease of their faint elect; at which time it was to be supposed that all cotemporaries, who might recollect a mistake, or correct a miracle, would be out of his way. But the Apotheofis, which is due to Edmond, in Queen Ann Street, Eaft, is already mature, and perfect. "Viventi decus atque fentienti." I haften, after the reapers, into that prolific ftubble of genius and fancy, which the notes of Edmond-Ariftarchus have left behind them, for us (poor gleaners) to explore. The Canons will be few and fhort, but the Examples interefting and pleasant; or I will never tell the Reader again that he may depend upon me. Bentley in his preface to the Notes upon Horace, defining what fort of perfonages, critics, who deferve the name, ought, in his conception of them, to be, has drawn Edmond's portrait as if he fat for it. "Eft et per-acri infuper judicio opus; eft fagacitate et dyxwvoia; eft, ut de Ariftarcho, olim prædicabant, divinandi quâdam peritiâ, et μavτin, quæ nullâ laborandi pertinaciâ acquiri poffunt, fed naturæ folius munere, nafcendique felicitate, contingunt." [Bentl. Pref. to Notes upon Hor: "CRITICISM is the daughter of LABOUR and " of TRUTH." [Rambler, No. 3. CANON |