e's use of names made such a defense
desirable. See, for example, Ward (p. 9) and "A Letter to a Noble
Lord: Occasion'd by the Late Publication of the Dunciad Variorum," in
_Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Infallibility Examin'd_ (London,
1729), p. 12. Boileau's _Discourse_ is a particularly apposite reply
to the latter, which had contrasted Pope's satiric practice with that
of Horace, Juvenal, and Boileau.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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AN
ESSAY,
ON
SATIRE,

Particularly on the DUNCIAD.

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The Works of VIRGIL Translated into Blank Verse by _J. Trapp_, D. D.
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AN
ESSAY
ON
SATIRE,

Particularly on the
DUNCIAD.

BY
Mr. _WALTER HARTE_

of St. _Mary-Hall_, Oxon.

To which is added, A
DISCOURSE _on_ SATIRES,
_Arraigning Persons by Name_.

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THE CONTENTS.

I. _The Origine and Use of_ Satire. _The Excellency of_ Epic Satire
_above others, as adding Example to Precept, and animating by_ Fable
_and sensible Images. Epic Satire compar'd with Epic Poem, and wherein
they differ: Of their_ Extent, Action, Unities, Episodes, _and the
Nature of their_ Morals. _Of_ Parody: _Of the_ Style, Figures, _and_
Wit _proper to this Sort of Poem, and the superior Talents requisite
to Excel in it._

II. _The_ Characters _of the several Authors of Satire. 1. The
Ancients;_ Homer, Simonides, Archilochus, Aristophanes, Menippus,
Ennius, Lucilius, Varro, Horace, Persius, Petronius, Juvenal, Lucian,
_the Emperor_ Julian. _2. The Moderns;_ Tassone, Coccaius, Rabelais,
Regnier, Boileau, Dryden, Garth, Pope.

III. _From the Practice of all the best Writers and Men in every Age
and Nation, the_ Moral Justice _of_ Satire _in General, and of this
Sort in Particular, is Vindicated. The_ Necessity _of it shewn in_
this Age _more especially, and why bad Writers are at present the_
most proper Objects of Satire. _The_ True Causes _of bad Writers._
Characters _of several Sorts of them now abounding; Envious Critics,
Furious Pedants, Secret Libellers, Obscene Poetesses, Advocates for
Corruption, Scoffers at Religion, Writers for Deism, Deistical and_
A