Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner, David Newman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber’s Note: This e-text comes in three different forms: unicode (utf-8), latin-1 and ascii-7. --If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the utf-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --If “œ” is two letters, but French words like “étude” have accents, you have the latin-1 version. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ascii-7 or rock-bottom version. All necessary text will still be there; it just won’t be as pretty. Some sections of the primary text used Italic body text, with Roman (de-italicized) type for emphasis. In these passages, Roman type is shown with +marks+ for clarity. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Series Six: _Poetry and Language_ No. 1 John Oldmixon, _Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley_ (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring, _The British Academy_ (1712). With an Introduction by Louis A. Landa The Augustan Reprint Society September, 1948 _Price: 75 cents_ _GENERAL EDITORS_ RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_ EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_ H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_ _ASSISTANT EDITOR_ W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_ _ADVISORY EDITORS_ EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_ BENJAMIN BOYCE, _University of Nebraska_ LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_ CLEANTH BROOKS, Yale University JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_ SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_ ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_ JAMES SUTHERLAND, _Queen Mary College, London_ Lithoprinted from copy supplied by author by Edwards Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 1948 _INTRODUCTION_