ABSTRACT
Having spoken of his Progress of the Soul, let me add, that Poetry scarce ever rnever1lost more than by his not pursuing and finishing that noble Design; of which he has only given us the Introduction. With regard to his Satires, it is almost as much to be lamented that Mr Pope did not give us a Paraphrase, in his manner, of the Third, the noblest work [which treats the noblest subject 1766] not only of this, but perhaps of any satiric Poet. To supply this loss, though in some [a very] small degree, I have here inserted it, in the versification of Dr Parnell. It will at least serve to shew the force of Dr Donne's genius, and of Mr Pope's; by removing all that was rustic and shocking in the one, and by not being able to reach one [a] single grace of the other. [Here Warburton gives Parnell's version of Satyre jji, and comments upon it.]
This noble similitude, with which the Satire concludes, Dr Parnell did not seem to understand and so [;or] was not able to express it in its original force. Dr Donne says,
[He quotes lines I03-9a of Satyre iii] Dr DOIUle expressly compares Power or Authority to Streams: Souls to Flowers; but not being so explicit in the latter, Dr Parnell overlooked that part of the Simile, and [power to streams: but the comparison of souls to flowers being only implied, Dr Parnell overlooked that part; and] so has hurt the whole thought, by making the Flowers passive; whereas the Original says, they leave their roots, and give themselves to the stream: that is, wilfully prefer human Authority to divine; and this makes them the object of his Satire; which they would not have been, were they irresistibly carried away, as the Imitation supposes.
