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Title: The Man of Taste

Author: James Bramston

Editor: F. P. Lock

Release Date: August 15, 2010 [EBook #33441]

Language: English

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THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

[JAMES BRAMSTON]

THE MAN of TASTE

(1733)

_Introduction by_ F. P. LOCK

PUBLICATION NUMBER 171

WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

1975

GENERAL EDITORS

William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

INTRODUCTION

For what has Virro painted, built, and planted?
Only to show, how many Tastes he wanted.
What brought Sir Visto's ill got wealth to waste?
Some Daemon whisper'd, "Visto! have a Taste."

(Pope, Epistle to Burlington)

The idea of "taste" and the ideal of the "man of taste" have fallen
considerably in critical esteem since the eighteenth century. When F.
R. Leavis calls Andrew Lang "a scholar and a man of taste, wit