AN ESSAY Ο Ν SATIRE, Occafioned by the Death of Mr POP E. Infcribed to Mr WARBURTON. By J. BRO W N, A. M. CONTENTS. F the End and Efficacy of Satire. The Love of Paffion, implanted in Man as a Spur to Virtue, is generally perverted, 41. And thus becomes the Occafion of the greatest Follies, Vices, and Miferies, * 61. It is the Work of Satire to rectify this Paf- fion, to reduce it to its proper Channel, and to con- vert it into an Incentive to Wisdom and Virtue, 89. Hence it appears, that Satire may influence those Rules for the Conduct of Satire. Justice and Truth 341. The Hiftory of Satire, Roman Satirifts, Lucilius, |