Note 300 — THE COMMENTARY AND NOTES OF W. WARBURTON ON THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
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When Warburton published his Shakespeare in 1747, Edwards exposed, in his Canons of Criticism, the dogmatism and absurdity of many of the comments and conjectures. His book was unanswerable, and Warburton was reduced to display his spleen in such sneers as the present.