Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-06-06

bic, and hide the stains of poabc mpu,,y; had mani
tested feiloweelug with celebra et all his lit
uenessthen il would have been time me indeed
to my character to save it from that shade which, fear
long your edition of Pope remembered, will
yours, both critic and u man.
really painful 10 witness acknowledged TALENT
virtue, aud worth, thus necifly pulling another
pieces, aud either exciting the pity of furnishing
the bystandes aud spectators who speak
ing, care not fdhins about the matter dispute between
them.
With regard the Qcaterly Review, also, Mr.. Bowle
plungeS deep in the troubled this stormy sug
gle, that il will not be in power give than
general view ofhis arguments, with addition few
quotations With this sketch readers, too will proba
bly, be satisfied. Those who have relish high
ed discussion, acrimonious personalities, and ricule with
nvecvc sometimes not little coarse, must refer TO the
volume itself
In second Letter Mr.. Roscoe, Mr.. Rowles proceeds
10 the subject of poetical criticism and the "nvaabe
principles of poetry; which points, among other
tcrS, he and Mr. r. issue Byron before
taken the same ground OF with Mr. Roscoe, and,
as we think, not more successfully than he has done On
this topic cannot but congratulate Mr. B. complete
triumph The public voice is decidedly with him. We
nave yet seen no arguments to prove that all subjects
whatever kind, whether Of 'n-door nature"
It has been quantity called alfc adapted poetical
embellishments Mr. e. closely follows his adversary Mr..
Roscoe, through all his appeals genius poet
ica subjects, aud distinctly stews the faacy of hrs
sonings though perhaps style peculiarly pala
OF 6attering his pupil Rail!ery aud eproach howe
I'll calculated concilate where
snot felt the best instructors will labor in vain convince
the understanding Let the reader Judge for himself.
you are set in the stocks without foot 10 stir in the
very stocks forre from your wooden Illustrations
yourself smiling all the whie If delighted with your
situation
You raise mist vcrbiagc quibbles; and in this
respect you appear 10 resemble of those
cojurors of old, who when they yhncuishet raised
mist round them; but the mist does hide the 'ud
erous figure in which appear, with frog and
rampant Tor supporters, and cucumber for creS!
Yet Mr.. Is. hopes his pupil. "Some
sir when you taking walk the banks of the alc-
Sey and, perhaps brushing the dew towards Gcad Hall,
the truth will rush upon ypu like lightning, aHd then you
will be like the old bourgeois gentiuone who talked ptose
| all his life without knowing H."
Mr. Roscoe had incautiously quoted par, Of Lord By
rons satirical lines Mr.. g. contained in his English
Bdrds and Scotch Hrierers These Mr. B. parc1lies as
ollcws:--
off Pope, who from the first
Needed the best of critics, fou nd the worst.
Roscoe, essay. All injudicious friend,
Alike his virtues and his faults commend;
Hate aud revile all those who cannot see
Wisdom and worth in his defects, like thee!
Gloss Ter his vengeful hate, his foul delight
In ribaldIy his cunning, and his spite.
Bring forth thy frogs and mice, and wooden men,
1t instances and types 10 prove his pen
Can rival Shakespear-scize Ihe critic throne,
81 Solomon second 'Sulumon,'
And kick thy feeble foo, at Pavson Bowles,
Who, like "a fend, his gossins eye-bals rolls
And AGAIN.
"Oh! had Apollo Who so justly graced,
With asses ears crown'd Midas Tor his taste,
u
pescan, on Covper's stercoraceous heap.
Wit, kindred clods he would have crown'd thy brains
And link 4 thee TO dunghill for thy pains"
He adds-''AS have given you SD little i'm return for
the presents you ped upon me- what hero onI,
beg your acceptance four upTonpl lines for your long
quotation from the DuHciad.
con Pores tf odIcInG eli Uamaa among the Cly1c
ierS Of Men.
pope, placed an old woman mid portraits Of mem
Hear this, ye bold critics. and tremblr--
Because he foresaw that one critic would rise
Who Should most IN old icOmdl resemble"
Proceed to- Mr.. B.'s answer to the Oua,erly
Review NO 6t) under whose pointed and personal en-
tique could hardly be expected that Nr s. would be 81
lent This part of his publication he begins with observ
ing: Il should not have continued this apparently inetm
nable strife further but my old friend Quarterly has
turned out again with something like renewed spite IF not
with renewed vgour, like Antnus ho the grouud have
therefore Determined whilst ng hand is in, whilst the
unfortunate Mr. Roscoeis tire ground surrounded will,
sympatAsNg NICE and signing frogs to turn for the
''51y antagonist armed with q1rier-sta nv no
10 be disregarded though little out OF BREATH
aud what is iroTSe, little out Of pke for if had three
hundred pounds Tor my edition of Pope, have spent near
y as much in defending myself getting ali the abuse for no
thing But,
"'--beili signum Lauren;i Tu5nus ab arce
Ex,u'"
MI B. proccd,o show that his "inyaria bic princi-
Piles poe try have weahced every storm and rived sal
in 'front.' that the Quarterly Reviewer places Mr. Pope in
exactly the same rank OF poeca excellence as he had
done before, however his arguments may have been
IouNtNi ana WSsidtu' tIdt 'Ltfe shade
ence beween the Quarterly Reviewers opinion and his
own'-tiiat Pope as descriptive poet, inferior 20
CowPer and Thomson as lyric poe failed;ti not +
tempt tragic epic was unlival.ed, and never in z
opinion (obse'cs Mr. b. be equai!cd in lie ia:e Of
of hc Lock, and ristie to Abedyi superior al others
ancient MADEIRA ddaciic satrca! poct; but ms
far Ae nobest character and distinction of the most e!e
waited kind of poetry required is ndefinc to call him
the greatest English poet; Tor, from the nature his sub
ects, however exqusely treated he rank inferior 10
Shakespeare Milton, and Spenserm'
Quarterly Il IJr
applied the description Of various characters given by
Pope, TO certain individuals HON they did not belong
and to whom they were never ineniod. T'.' Bufo, IN
the Prologue the Satres, according this Director was
not Lord Halifax; nor Tmon, the Duke OF Chandos; nor
SapPho, Lady Nj. w. Montague. Now, with respect to
BuO, Mr. Bowles very ably contends, that the character
could not possibly apply TO any other Individual The
Reviewer maintains that Lord Halifax died in i7lj: but
that the lines published til 1884. What is the
reason asks M Bow!c shat Pope, publishing this satire
i'll 1871 could not possibly have Intended BUN of Lord
Halifax? because Lord I!aaX died III HIS rs the lines
might have been written long before they we're publish:
ed and if Pope did say himself thai the poem wa