Excerpt from Letters From a Late Eminent Prelate to One of His Friends First American: Edition

Rev. Sir,

I Received the favour of your edition of Horace's Art of Poetry: for which I beg leave to make my best acknowledgments.

You have given very little advantage to the critics, but where you speak of me: and yet my self-love will not suffer me to wish it unsaid, when I consider how much real honour is done to every one whom such an author commends.

I tell you, with all sincerity, I think the Notes one of the most masterly pieces of criticism that ever was written. I am sure (and I ought to be ashamed to say it) that I should have envied you for it, had I not found you so generous to the Commentator of Mr. Pope. As it is, I take a pride in it as my own, a greater than I can take in any of my own. I wish it was in my power to make a suitable acknowledgment for my obligations. The best thing I have to offer you is a very unprofitable friendship. Such as it is, you have a right to it.

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