William Roscoe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia to Barclay's Argenis, 1800 ca.; Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 434.
What modern work even of the size of Paradise Lost, — much less of the Faery Queen — (N.B. are even these read?) would be read in the present day, or even bought, or likely to be bought, unless it be an instructive work, like Roscoe's 5 quartos of Leo X. — or Boswell's 3 of Dr. Johnson's pilfered brutalities of wit?