Transcription exercise at DHoxSS 2016. This exercise is using a manuscript from the Shelley-Godwin-Archive provided by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford at http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/sc/oxford/ms_shelley/e3/#/p62
cient distinctions, between Homer & Hesiod
between Æschylus & Euripides, between
Virgil
Petrarch, between Shakespeare & Fletcher
between Dryden & Pope;—each has
a specific generic resemblance under
which thier specific distinctions are
arranged. If
be
the result of imitation, I am willing
to confess that I have imitated
Concede to me
acknowledging wha that I have, what
a
terms, "a passion for reforming the
write & publish his book, he omits
to explain— But For my part, I
had rather be damned with Plato &
Lord Bacon, than go to Heaven with
Paley & Malthus. But it is a
my poetical compositions solely to
the direct inforcement of that