text:  * * * His thoughts are sharper; his indignation against vice more vehement; his spirit has more of the commonwealth genius; he treats tyranny and all the vices attending it as they deserve with the utmost rigour; and consequently a noble soul is better pleased with a zealous vindicator of Roman liberty than with _a temporizing poet a well-manner'd court-slave and a man who is often afraid of laughing in the right place who is ever decent because he is naturally servile_