Note 093
Yet a sect of Arabians was persuaded, that it
might be equalled or surpassed by a human pen, (Pocock,
Specimen, p. 221, &c.;) and Maracci (the polemic is too hard
for the translator) derides the rhyming affectation of the
most applauded passage, (tom. i. part ii. p. 69 - 75.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 50