was distinguished as a poet, a gentleman, and a skil- P. 192. l. 18. r. He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at SAVAGE. P. 369. 1. 5. add, Henley, in one of his advertisements, had mentioned Pope's Treatment of Savage. This was fuppofed by Pope to be the confequence of a complaint made by Savage to Henley, and was therefore mentioned by him with much refentment. Ib. 1. 18. r. July 31, 1743. P. 371. 1. 19. r. as others in their clofets. P. 378. 1. 4. r. the down of plenty. SAEL P. 378. 1. SWIFT. P. 395. l. 5. 17. r. an explanation of an Ancient Prophecy P. 398. 1. 20. r. was not made of the ardour, &c. P. 406. 1. 16. r. the wifh for a life of eafe was always re- P. 409. 1. 9. r. received with refpect. P. 414. l. 19. r. The effect of the publication upon the Dean and Stella. I P. 423. P. 423. 1. 8. r. a languifhing decay. Ib. 1. 11. r. his papers fhew. Ib. 1. 21. r. different from the general course. P. 424. 1. 21. r. died under the tyranny. P. 425- 1. II. r. Swift himself has, &c. P. 436. 1. 8. r. it is the best mode, but &c. P. 437. 1. 4. r. To his duty as Dean he was very attentive.' P. 444. l. 3. r. an affumed imperiousness. P. 4. l. 6. r. was never discovered till Mr. Tyers told, on the authority of Mrs. Racket, that he was a linendraper in the Strand. P. 37. 1. 21. 7. Lintot printed two hundred and fifty on royal paper in folio for two guineas a volume; of the fmall folio, having printed feventeen hundred and fifty copies of the first volume, he reduced the number in' the other volumes tó a thousand. P. 38. L. 18. Of this edition two thousand five hundred were first printed, and five thousand a few weeks afterwards. P. 41. l. 15. r. could eafily obtain. P. 43. 1. 17. add, and who profeffed to have forgotten the terms on which he worked. P. 45. 1. 17. add, and only fix hundred and fixty were printed. P. 67. l. 14. 7. were not long divided. P. 105. l. 7. r, together with a fancy &c. P. 105. P. 105. 1. 18. r. and excited against the advocate the wishes of fome who favoured the cause. P. 106. 1. 9. r. He tells Concanen, "Dryden I obferve borrows for want of leafure, and Pope for want of genius; Milton out of pride, and Addifon out of modefty." P. 126. l. 3. r. unattainable Arts. P. 132. 1. 6. r. his father the painter. P. 133. l. 16. r. with terminations not confiftent with the time or country in which he places them. P. 137. l. 9. r. He left the care of his papers to his executors, first to lord Bolingbroke, and if he should not be living to the earl of Marchmont, undoubtedly expecting them to be proud of the truft. Ib. 1. 14. r. Dodfley the bookfeller went to folicit, &c. P. 140. 1. 17. add, To this apology an answer was written, in A Letter to the most impudent man living. P. 142. 1. 4. r. and by another is defcribed, &c. l. P. 151. 1. 19. r. The name of Congreve appears in the Letters among thofe of his other friends, but with out any obfervable distinction or confequence. P. 153. 1. 22. r. which men give of their own minds. P. 177. 1. 12. r. it never obtained. P. 184. l. 3. r. without much attention. P. 195. l. 21. r. will be found, in the progrefs of learning. P. 200. l. 10. r. was to him a new ftudy; he was &c. Ib. 1. 18. r. He finds out that those Beings must be fome where, and that all, &c. P. 206. 1. 17. r. and by which extrinfick, &c. P. 209. 1. 6. add, In his latter productions the diction is fometimes vitiated by French idioms, with which Bolingbroke had perhaps infected him. P, 234, 1. 16. r. where is the relation between the two po fitions, that he gained no title, and loft no friend? P. 230. 1. 12. r, is borrowed from Dryden. P. 231. 1. 5. r. is borrowed from the epitaph on Raphael. 1. 14. r. is borrowed from Crafhaw. P. 233 P. 234. 1. 20. r. is not more fuccessfully executed than the reft, for it will not &c. , 239. 1. 20. r. even this wretchedness, P. 240. l. 11. r. haberet is fepulchrum. Ib. 1. 12. r. Surely Ariofto did not venture to expect that his trifle would have ever had fuch an illuftrious imitator. PITT. P. 244. l. 18. r. Triftram's fplendid edition. P. 246. 1. 6. add, This can hardly be true; and, if true, is nothing to the reader. Ib. 1. 10. r. He gave us a complete English Eneid, which I am forry not to fee joined in the late publication with his other poems. THOMSON. P. 263. 1. 6. add, and was welcomed to the theatre by a general clap; he had much regard for Thomson, and once expreffed it in a Poetical Epistle fent to Italy, of which, however, he abated the value, by transplanting fome of the lines into his Epistle to Arbuthnot. P. 264. 1. 6. It may be doubted whether he was, either &c. P. 274. 1. ult. add, The highest praise which he has re ceived ought not to be fuppreffed; it is faid by lord Lyttelton in the prologue to his pofthumous play, that his works contained "No line which, dying, he could wish to blot." WATT WATT S. P. 286. 1. 16. ult. after annual revenue, add, though the whole was not a hundred a year. P. 287. 1. 20. r. to admire his meeknefs of oppofition, and his mildness of cenfure. P. 291. 1. 3. r. his fancy was to be supplied. A. PHILIP S. P. 300. 1. 16. r. variety of matter, which &c. P. 301. 1. 16, 17. r. to cenfure. Ib. 1. 23. r. Befchareccie. P. 304. 1. 17. 7. the subscriptions for Homer. WEST. P. 315. 1. 6. after 1748, add, and would doubtless, have reached yet further had he lived to complete what he had for fome time meditated, the Evidences of the truth of the New Testament. Perhaps it may not be without effect to tell, that he read the prayers of the Publick Liturgy every morning to his family; and that on Sunday evening he called his fervants into the parlour, and read to them, first a sermon, and then prayers. Ib. 1. 20. add, Thefe two illuftrious friends had for a while liftened to the blandifhments of infidelity; and when Weft's book was published, it was bought by fome, who did know his change of opinion, in expectation of new objections against Christianity; and as Infidels do not want malignity, they revenged the disappointment by calling him a Methodist. P. 316. I. 14. r. the grave might be without its terrors. '. 318. 1, 13. r. has two amusements together. |