OBSERVATIONS ON THE FAIRY QUEEN Or SPENSER. By THOMAS WARTON, A. M. TELLOW OF TRINITY-COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. A NEW EDITION. VOL: London: Printed by C. Stower, Pater-noster Row; AVE-MARIA LANE. 1807. ON THE FAIRY QUEEN ов SPENSER. SECT. VIII. Of Spenser's Imitations of Himself. COMMENTATORS of less taste than learning, of less discernment than ostentation, have taken infinite pains to point out, and compare those passages which their respective authors have imitated from others. This disquisition, if executed with a judicious moderation, and extended no further than to those passages which are distinguished with certain induibitable characters, and internal VOL. II. |