Excerpt from The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Vol. 2 of 2 If J ohnson, from want of sympathy with the Abstract and the 'visionary, gives no satisfactory analysis of Browne as an author and a man, Coleridge and Hazlitt, unfitted for the task by a fault precisely the reverse, do not appear to us to supply the deficiency. Hazlitt him self has disposed of the remarks of his eloquent contem porary with concise and summary justice. But when he favours us with his own definitions, it is not Browne criticised, hut Browne imitated. Deep calleth unto deep. The Obscure of the author is elucidated by the Unintel ligible of the commentator. What can we possibly learn of Browne by being told that the antipodes are next door neighbours to him, and doomsday is not far that nature is too little for the grasp of his style - that it is as if his books had dropped from the clouds, or Friar Bacon's head could If the romantic pretti nesses of Coleridge had not thrown much light upon the subject, certainly no better success has attended the cloudy metaphors and colossal conceits of Hazlitt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.