"Uncorrect" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... both by Reasons and Examples that the Ancients are inferior to us; and fetches his Arguments from his own particular Tast, and his Examples from his own Writings. He owns, That the Ancients tho' generally uneven and uncorrect, have yet here and there some fine Touches, and indeed these are so fine, that the quoting of them is the only thing that makes his Criticisms worth a ...
— The Present State of Wit (1711) - In A Letter To A Friend In The Country • John Gay |
