Note 301 — THE COMMENTARY AND NOTES OF W. WARBURTON ON THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Reading edition
The work which Warburton vaunts as the only honest piece of modern criticism, was by his friend and flatterer Hurd. Personal partiality might excuse the undue exaltation of a feeble production, but is no apology for calumniating men who were quite as candid and far more able.