text:  censure the rapacity of innkeepers and the wretchedness of their extorted accommodation when France from the time of Chaucer to the present hour has been famous for the civility of the one and the convenience of the other? To what purpose if the French government were to be criticised enumerate the danger of high-roads and the caverns unexplored by a negligent administration in which bandits found a refuge? If France was aimed at how does it happen that the literature of its golden age is the subject of attack and a perverted and fantastic style of writing assigned to an epoch remarkable for the severity and precision of its taste? If Spain is meant the attack is perfectly intelligible as the epoch is exactly that when Spanish taste began to degenerate and the style of Spanish writers to become vicious inflated and fantastic in imitation of Gongora who did so much to ruin the literature of his country; as other writers of much less ability but who addressed themselves to a public far inferior in point of taste to that of Gongora have recently done in England