tune. Grotto. Importance. Post-office, letters open_.
_Cant of despising the world_. _Affectation of despising
poetry_. _His easiness about the critics._. _Something of
foppery_. _His letters to the ladies--pretty_. _Abuse of
Scripture--not all early_. Thoughts in his letters that are
elsewhere.

ESSAY ON MAN.

_Ramsay missed the fall of man_. _Others the immortality of the
soul. Address to our Saviour_. _Excluded by Berkeley_.
_Bolingbroke's notions not understood_. Scale of Being _turn it
in prose_. Part and not the whole always said. _Conversation
with Bol_. R. 220.[263] _Bol. meant ill. Pope well_. _Crousaz.
Resnel. Warburton_. _Good sense. Luxurious--felicities of
language. Wall_. _Loved labour--always poetry in his head_.
_Extreme sensibility. Ill-health, headaches_. _He never
laughed_. _No conversation_. _No writings against Swift_.
Parasitical epithets. Six lines of Iliad.[264] _He used to set
down what occurred of thoughts--a line--a couplet._ The
humorous lines end sinner. Prunello.[265] First line made for
the sound, or v. versa. Foul lines in Jervas. _More notices of
books early than late_.

DUNCIAD.

The line on Phillips borrowed from another poem. Pope did not
increase the difficulties of writing. _Poetaepulorum_.

MODERN LITERATURE--BAYLE'S CRITICAL DICTIONARY

A new edition of Bayle in France is an event in literary history which
could not have been easily predicted. Every work which creates an epoch
in literature is one of the great monuments of the human mind; and Bayle
may be considered as the father of literary curiosity, and of modern
literature. Much has been alleged against our author: yet let us be
careful to preserve what is precious. Bayle is the inventor of a work
which dignified a collection of facts constituting his text, by the
argumentative powers and the copious illustrations which charm us in his
diversified commentary. Conducting the humble pursuits of an Aulus
Gellius and an Athenaeus with a high spirit, he showed us the _philosophy
of Books_, and communicated to such limited researches a value which
they had otherwise not possessed.

This was introducing a study perfectly distinct from what is
pre-eminently distinguished as "classical learning," and the subjects
which had usually entered into philological pursuits. Ancient
literature, from century to