150
Taste.
the best judges are always the Persons of the greatest Candor. They will find none but real Faults, and wherever they commend, the Praise is justly due.
I have intimated already, that a good Taste is to be formed by reading the best Authors, and when Your Lordship shall be able to point out their Beauties, to discern the brightest Passages, the Strength and Elegance of their Language, You will always write Yourself, and read others by that Standard, and must therefore necessarily excel.
In Rome, my Lord, there were some popular Orators, who with a false Eloquence and violent Action carried away
the
