A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
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A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
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48 LETTEES.<br />
oratorial censor, and the satirical poet, were<br />
regarded as exercising only that just preeminence<br />
to which superior genius, and an<br />
intimate knowledge of Hfe and human nature,<br />
were conceived to entitle them ; the Mac-<br />
Flecknoe of Dryden, the Dunciad<br />
and the<br />
satirical imitations of Pope, remained secure<br />
from molestation by the Attorney-General;<br />
the literary castigators of a BoHngbroke and<br />
a Wharton enjoyed the triumph<br />
of truth<br />
and justice unawed by ew-officios; and<br />
Addison could describe a coward and a liar<br />
without being called to account for his inuendos<br />
by the interference of the judicial<br />
servants of the king.<br />
But times are altered, and a man may now<br />
be sent to prison for a couple of years, and<br />
ruined for hfe, because he " caUs a spade a<br />
spade," and tells a pubHc individual the very<br />
truth (s) that are obvious to the most partial<br />
of his friends.
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