text:  And in sooth when this Essay sprang from the brain of Pope --were not possibly the papers lying in the desk of Addison in which he began for our literature the deliberate and express examination into the Philosophy of Criticism within the domain of the beautiful in Art and Nature? Addison in a commendatory critique in the _Spectator_ said that the observations in the Essay "follow one another without that methodical regularity that would have been requisite in a prose writer