nts as may be supplied by historical retrospection or
incidental meditation."]

[Footnote 4: Critics differ. "Nothing," says Warton, "can be colder and
more prosaic than the manner in which Denham has spoken of the distant
prospect of London and St. Paul's."]

[Footnote 5: Singer's Spence, p. 153.]

[Footnote 6: Autobiography of Mrs. Delany, vol. i. p. 20, 82.]

[Footnote 7: Lives of the Poets, ed. Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 307.]

[Footnote 8: Memoires, Col. Michaud, 3rd Series, tom. viii. p. 731;
Bolingbroke's Works, vol. ii. p. 315, Philadelphia, 1841.]

[Footnote 9: Bolingbroke's Works, vol. ii. p. 315, 317, 320. "The sole
question," says Bolingbroke, "is, who caused this disunion?--and that
will be easily decided by every impartial man, who informs himself
carefully of the public anecdotes of that time. If the private anecdotes
were to be laid open as well as those, and I think it almost time they
should, the whole monstrous scene would appear, and shock the eye of
every honest man." The prediction has been fulfilled, and the vaunting
prophet consigned to infamy through the evidence he invoked.]

[Footnote 10: Bolingbroke's Works, vol. i. p. 123.]

[Footnote 11: Bolingbroke's Works, vol. i. p. 124.]

[Footnote 12: Gibber's Apology, 4th ed. vol. ii. p. 11.]

[Footnote 13: Warburton's Pope, ed. 1760, vol. iv. p. 172; Spence, p.
148.]

[Footnote 14: Hurd's Addison, vol. i. p. 299.]

[Footnote 15: Pope related, perhaps truly, that Addison objected to the
phrase "Britons _arise_!" in the Prologue to Cato, and said, "it would
be called stirring the people to rebellion." Warburton holds this
incident to be a proof that Addison "was exceedingly afraid of party
imputations throughout the carriage of the whole affair," as if, because
he did not wish to be considered an instigator to rebellion, it followed
that he shrunk from seeming an advocate for whig principles.]

[Footnote 16: Pope to Caryll, April 30, 1713.]

[Footnote 17: Scott's Life of Swift, p. 139.]

[Footnote 18: Pope to Caryll, May 1, 1714.]

[Footnote 19: Essay on the Genius of Pope, 5th ed. vol. i. p. 29.]

[Footnote 20: Spectator, No. 523.]

[Footnote 21: Pope to Caryll, Nov. 29, 1712.]

[Footnote 22: Spectator, No. 523, Oct. 30, 1712.]

[Footnote 23: Wordsworth's Works, ed. 1836, vol. iii. p. 316.]

[Footnote 24: Epilogue to the Satires; Dialog. 2, ver. 182.]

[Footnote 25: Essay on Criticism, ver. 418.]

[Footnote 26: Pope to Lord Lan