Merry and Crusca! .... Gifford's right: beware; The very ground is his and Bavian air.
The author of the Baviad and Maeviad. Mr. Gifford is the most correct poetical writer I have read, since the days of Pope. Upon the whole I give the preference to the Baviad after much consideration, though both the Poem may be studied with pleasure and advantage. — I have not the honour of Mr. Gifford's acquaintance; and indeed, from the nature of my retirement, I probably may never see him.
