Dean Swift is Rabelais in his Senſes, and frequenting the politeſt Company. The former indeed is not ſo gay as the latter, but then he poſſeſſes all the Delicacy, the Juſtneſs, the Choice, the good Taſte, in all which Particulars our giggling rural Vicar Rabelais is wanting. The poetical Numbers of Dean Swift are of a ſingular and almoſt inimitable Taſte; true Humour whether in Proſe or Verſe, ſeems to be his peculiar Talent, but whoever is deſirous of underſtanding him perfectly, muſt viſit the Iſland in which he was born.
'Twill be much eaſier for you to form an Idea of Mr. Pope's Works. He is in my Opinion the moſt elegant, the moſt correct Poet; and at the ſame Time the moſt harmonious (a Circumſtance which redounds very much to the Honour of this Muſe) that England ever gave Birth to. He has mellow'd the harſh Sounds of the Engliſh Trumpet to the ſoft Accents of the Flute. His Compoſitions may be eaſily tranſlated, becauſe they are vaſtly clear and
