Note 263 — AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Dennis notices that this couplet is borrowed from Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse:
Thus make the proper use of each extreme, And write with fury, but correct with phlegm.
Reading edition
Dennis notices that this couplet is borrowed from Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse:
Thus make the proper use of each extreme, And write with fury, but correct with phlegm.