Excerpt from The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq., Vol. 10 of 10: With the Life of the Author It is, I think, the fentiment of Qiintilian, that no man is capable of becoming a good critic on a great poet, but he who is himfelf a great poet. This would, indeed, confine the critics on poetry, at lead, to a very fmall number; and would, indeed, {trike all the ancients, except only Horace and Lon: ginus, off the roll; of the latter of whom, though he was no poet, Mr. Pope finely fays. 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.