temper, I will likewise inform you, that I shall be in your
neighbourhood again, by the end of next week: by which time I hope
that Jonathan's imagination of business will be succeeded by some
imagination more becoming a professor of that divine science, _la
bagatelle_. Adieu. Jonathan, Alexander, John, mirth be with you!"

132 Prior must be excepted from this observation. "He was lank and
lean."

133 Swift exerted himself very much in promoting the _Iliad_
subscription; and also introduced Pope to Harley and
Bolingbroke.--Pope realized by the _Iliad_ upwards of 5,000_l._,
which he laid out partly in annuities, and partly in the purchase of
his famous villa. Johnson remarks that "it would be hard to find a
man so well entitled to notice by his wit, that ever delighted so
much in talking of his money".

134 Garth, whom Dryden calls "generous as his Muse", was a Yorkshireman.
He graduated at Cambridge, and was made M.D. in 1691. He soon
distinguished himself in his profession, by his poem of the
_Dispensary_, and in society, and pronounced Dryden's funeral
oration. He was a strict Whig, a notable member of the Kit-Kat and a
friendly, convivial, able man. He was knighted by George I, with the
Duke of Marlborough's sword. He died in 1718.

135 "Arbuthnot was the son of an episcopal clergyman in Scotland, and
belonged to an ancient and distinguished Scotch family. He was
educated at Aberdeen; and, coming up to London--according to a Scotch
practice often enough alluded to--to make his fortune--first made
himself known by 'an examination of Dr. Woodward's account of the
Deluge'. He became physician, successively to Prince George of
Denmark and to Queen Anne. He is usually allowed to have been the
most learned, as well as one of the most witty and humorous members
of the Scriblerus Club. The opinion entertained of him by the
humourists of the day is abundantly evidenced in their
correspondence. When he found himself in his last illness, he wrote
thus, from his retreat at Hampstead, to Swift:

"Hampstead, Oct. 4, 1734.

"MY DEAR AND WORTHY FRIEND,--

"You have no reason to put me among the rest of your forgetful
friends, for I wrote two long letters to you, to which I never
received one word of answer. The first w