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Excerpt from Modern Chivalry, Vol. 1: Containing the Adventures of a Captain, and Teague O'regan, His Servant
It will be needless for me to say any thing about the Critics for as this worx is intended as a model or rule of good writing, it cannot be the subject of criticism. It is true, Homer has been criticised by a Zoilus and an Aristotle; but the one contented himself with pointing out defects the other, beau ties. But Zoilus has been censured, Aristotle prais ed; because in a model there can be no defect; error consisting in a deviation from the truth, and faults, _in an aberration from the original of beauty so that where there are no faults there can be no food for criticism. Taken in the unfavourable sense of finding fault with the productions of an author. I have no objections, therefore, to any praise that may be given to this work but to censure or blame must appear absurd because it cannot be doubted but that it will perfectly answer the end proposed.
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