'I must confess,' says Mr.Wales.

'I have often been led to think the feats which Homer represents his heroes as performing with their spears, a little too much of the marvellous to be admitted into an heroic poem; I mean when confined within the strait stays of Aristotle.

Nay, even so great an advocate for him as Mr.Pope, acknowledges them to be surprising.

But since I have seen what these people can do with their wooden spears, and them badly pointed, and not of a hard nature, I have not the least exception to any one passage in that great poet on this account.

But if I see fewer exceptions, I can find infinitely more beauties in him; as he has.