"Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry was published in three volumes in 1774, 1778 and 1781. It was both a major …"

"Ye fetted pinnacles, ye fanes sublime, Ye towers that wear the mossy vest of time; Ye massy piles of old munificence,…"

"O! what's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head!"

"We are apt to form romantic and exaggerated notions about the moral innocence of our ancestors. Ages of ignorance and…"

"Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers."

"All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue."

"The late Mr Warton, with a poetical enthusiasm which converted toil into pleasure, and gilded, to himself and his rea…"

"A change was preparing and may be traced to Winchester, which, under Dr. Warton, had become a nursery of poets. If an…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"