Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . his influence was even better. The blankverse of Thomson, like the couplet of Pope, is rather fatallyperfect—it admits of little further variation. The ups anddowns of Young tempt to progress. There is more variety and more promise still in the rebellionin point of subject which both ]ioets show. Tn Thomson it takesthe path of the return to nature ; in Yoimg that of ]-eeoilupon the intimate and genuine thoug
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . his influence was even better. The blankverse of Thomson, like the couplet of Pope, is rather fatallyperfect—it admits of little further variation. The ups anddowns of Young tempt to progress. There is more variety and more promise still in the rebellionin point of subject which both ]ioets show. Tn Thomson it takesthe path of the return to nature ; in Yoimg that of ]-eeoilupon the intimate and genuine thoughts and feelings of , no doubt, still exhibit the force of convention. Theabsolute veracity of Thomsons observation is conditioned byacademic forms of expression : and the self-analysis of Young LITER ATUliE. 109 shows something of tlie trammels of the theatre, the pulpit, thefashionable essay. But both have thrown off the yoke of thetown, of the wits, oi das Gemeine. Once more with them itis acknowledged, as it has not been acknowledged for a couple ofgenerations, that man may be alone with Nature and withhimself Almost all the writers mentioned in this chapter have been. IIENUY ST. JOIIX, VISCOUNT BULIXGBllUKE, LY HYACIXTIIE KIGAUD. {Xatioiial Portrait Gallery.) writers in verse, and only one of them, Swift, Avas a very great Prose,writer of prose; though Popes letters are of excellent quality,and others wrote well. Indeed, it is curious at tirst si-ht thatthis ? age of prose should have attached a pre-eminent andalmost exaggerated value to verse. Whether for this reason orfor some other, its verse is certainly, on the whole, more note-worthy than its prose. Swift, indeed, would b} Imnself sufficeto till any period, and he had a mighty supporter in Berkeley,the best writer of philusophical, and one of the best writers of 110 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. Theo-logiansandMoralists. Bolingbroke. [1714 any, prose in English. But Berkeley falls for treatment else-where (p. SO) wit
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