OBSERVATIONS ON THE FAIRY QUEEN OF SPENSER. BY THOMAS WARTON, A. M. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE A NEW EDITION. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by C. Stower, Paternoster-row ; FOR R. DUTTON, GRACECHURCH STREET; AND THOMAS OSTELL, AVE-MARIA LANE. Library. .190. From ne Library of PROF. B. W GURNEY, 14487,16 Intey Fill 2 Seat I. pl. On Stars and Conduct of Faerie Queen...for Seet. II $25, On Spencers ductations from Ol Roman Use and abuse javaux On Spencer's Stanza Versificaten Он о and Lang Spurshaucer Jeet V. p272 Sest VII. 312 215-13 ON THE FAIRY QUEEN OF SPENSER. SECT I. Of the plan and conduct of the Fairy Queen. WHEN the works of Homer and of Aristotle began to be restored and studied in Italy, when the genuine and uncorrupted sources of ancient poetry and ancient criticism were opened, and every species of literature at last emerged from the depths of Gothic ignorance and barbarity, it might have been expected, that, instead of the romantic manner manner of poetical composi |