no
judgment on them." Swift's detestation of the House of Lords for not
punishing a man who was proved to be innocent of the offence with which
he was charged, is an instance of the kind of justice to be expected
from violent partisans.]
[Footnote 58: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 445.]
[Footnote 59: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 429.]
[Footnote 60: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 429, 445.]
[Footnote 61: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 439.]
[Footnote 62: P. T. said 380, but the 3 was probably a misprint for 4.]
[Footnote 63: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 429.]
[Footnote 64: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 430.]
[Footnote 65: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 423.]
[Footnote 66: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 438. Johnson's "Lives of the Poets,"
Vol. II. p. 261.]
[Footnote 67: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 435.]
[Footnote 68: Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 61.]
[Footnote 69: "Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence," 12mo. Vol. II. p.
vi.]
[Footnote 70: vol. I. Appendix, p. 446.]
[Footnote 71: vol. I. Appendix, p. 430.]
[Footnote 72: vol. I. Appendix, p. 442.]
[Footnote 73: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 447.]
[Footnote 74: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 431, 435.]
[Footnote 75: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 431.]
[Footnote 76: Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 61.]
[Footnote 77: "Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence," 12mo. Vol. III. p.
xii. Vol. I. Appendix, p. 439.]
[Footnote 78: The "Athenaeum" of Sept. 8, 1860.]
[Footnote 79: When Pope put forth his preface to the quarto he could not
have intended to disguise that he was the writer of the "Narrative," or
he would have been at greater pains to vary his language. If the general
resemblance had been less marked, an invention common to both
productions would reveal their common origin. In the "Narrative" we are
informed that the complete collection of Pope's had been copied into a
couple of books before Theobald published his edition of Wycherley's
posthumous works, and that it was from these manuscript books that the
Wycherley correspondence was transcribed for press. This assertion was
untrue. Theobald's volume came out in 1728, while Pope's collection, as
appears from his announcements to Lord Oxford, was still in the process
of formation in September, 1729, and he was only "causing it to be
fairly written" in October, after his own Wycherley volume had passed
through the press. The false account is repeated in the preface to the
quarto, where we are told that the posthumous works of Wycherley were
printed the yea
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