founder, he set himself to collect everything he could meet with, that was capable of being represented to his discredit, and to improve it with new and horrible calumnies of his own invention." Thus originated this defamatory attack on the character of William of Wykeham! And by arts, which active writers may practise, and innocent readers cannot easily suspect, a work of the highest reputation, like that of Nathaniel Bacon's, may be converted into a vehicle of personal malignity; while the author himself disguises his real purpose under the specious appearance of literature! The present case, it must be acknowledged, is peculiar, where a dead person was attacked with a spirit of rancour, to which the living only appear subject; but the author was an antiquary, who lived as much with the dead as the living his personal motive was the same as those already recorded, and here he was acting with a double force on the dead and the living! But here I stop my hand, my list would else be too complete. Great names are omitted-Whitaker and Gibbon'; Pope and Lord Hervey; Wood and South 3; Rowe, Mores, and Ames 4; and George Steevens and Gough. This chapter is not honourable to authors; but historians are only Lord Chief Justices, who must execute the laws, even on their intimate friends, when standing at the bar. The chapter is not honourable-but it may be useful; and that is a quality not less valuable to the public. It lets in their readers to a kind of knowledge, which opens a necessary comment on certain works, and enlarges our comprehension of their spirit. If in the heat of controversy authors imprudently attack each other with personalities, they are only scattering mud, and hurling stones, and will incur the ridicule or the contempt of those who, unfriendly to the literary character, feel a secret pleasure in its degradation : but let them learn, that to open a literary controversy from mere personal motives; thus to conceal the dagger of private hatred under the mantle of literature; is an expedient of short duration, for the secret history is handed down with the book; and when once the dignity of the author's character sinks, in the meanness of his motives, powerful as the work may be, even Genius finds its lustre diminished, and Truth itself becomes suspicious. INDEX TO PERSONS TREATED OF, OR ALLUDED TO, IN QUARRELS OF AUTHORS. Bohun, the Lawyer, 272, 273. Bolingbroke, Lord, 23, 27, 178, 191. - Mallet, and Pope, 82-87. Boyle and Bentley, 130-142. Robert, 97, 99, 107, 114, 211, 215.. Brooke and Camden, 228-239. Bayle, 4, 6, 19, 75, 111, 191, 193, 197. Byron, Lord, 155. Bentley, Dr., 18, 30, 267, 270. INDEX. Charles II., 99, 106, 110, 112, 143, 204. - and Pope, 65–73. Curll, Edmund, 48-78. D. D'AVENANT and a Club of Wits, 154, Davies, Thomas, 53, 195. Denham, Sir John, 51, 155, 159, 162. Dennis, the Critic, 49, 51, 75, 88, 90, Descartes, 215. Devonshire, Earl of, 197, 201. D'Ewes, Sir Simon, 247. Dodwell, Henry, 137. . Donne, Dr., 159. Dorislaus, Dr., 198. Douce, Mr., 231. Downe, Lord, 57. Drummond of Hawthornden, 218, 273. Clarendon, Lord, 5, 10, 160, 167, 168, Dryden, 14, 70, 93, 157, 176, 177, 182, 185, 188, 190, 198, 200. Clark, the Posture Master, 114. Clavel, the Bookseller, 144. Cleiveland, 165, 168. Cleland, 48. Cliffe, the Cobbler, 256. Colbatch, Dr., 268. 220, 266, 269. Ducket, Colonel, 50. Dugdale, 236. Dunton, John, 178. Dutens, M., 114. Duppa, M. R., 85. Dyson, Jeremiah, 30, 34. E. EACHARD, 18, 186, 195, 198. Earnley, Sir Michael, 167. Edward III., 273, 274. the Black Prince, 273. Edwards (Canons of Criticism), 7, 16, 21, 31, 32, 41, 269. Egmont, Lord, 77. Elizabeth, Queen, 112, 241, 242, 246, 247, 258,259. Cowley, 43, 110, 156, 157, 159, 205. Crofts, William, 159. Cromwell, 110, 146, 147, 150, 152, 174, 189, 190, 200, 215. Erastus, 21. Estcourt, 180. Gillies, Dr., 96. 103, 107, 113. Glover, 84, 85. Glanville, (Witches) 98, 101, 102, Hyde, the Orientalist, 38. J. - I. of Scotland, 220. VI. of Scotland, 259. Jacob, the Law-writer, 92. (Lives of the Poets), 51, 68, 90. Jeffries, Judge, 257. Jersey, Lord, 177. Earl of, 59. Jervis, the Painter, 28. Johnson, Dr., 3, 6, 27, 31, 48, 51, 56, 59, 62, 66, 67, 73, 77, 79, 82, 84, Hampton, Bess, 145. Joly, 193, 200. Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 15, 28, 29, 38, Jones, Inigo, 221. 44. Hardouin, Father, 20, 24. Harrington, (Oceana) 195. Harrison, Colonel, 11. Jonson, Ben, 29, 49, 271. Knight, Dr. Gawin, 16. Knox, 156. the Reformer, 241. Moore, A., S4. L. LANEHAM, 264. Langbaine, 221. Lauderdale, Earl of, 175. Leicester, Earl of, 247. Leland, Antiquary, 234, 238. Leland, Dr., (Demosthenes) 12, 26, 38. Lintot, Bernard, 62, 75. his Prices to Authors, 88, 92. Locke, 18, 172, 206. Loggan, the Engraver, 203. Lowth, Bp., 8, 10, 11, 14, 18, 24, 37, 38, 71, 272, 273. Luther, 194. More, Dr. Henry, 250. Morhoff, 107. Muleasses, King of Tunis, 146. N. NEALE, 244, 247, 258, 259. Sir Isaac, 121, 173. Nichols, Mr., 8, 22, 42, 50, 88, 93, 116. North, Roger, 176. Norton, Colonel, 168. Mr., 54. Nottingham, Earl of, 178. 0. OLDFIELD, Mrs., 78. Oldys, 103, 219. Oliver, Dr., 37. Orange, Prince of, 176. Orrery, Lord, 135. Oxford, Earl of, 62. M. MACHIAVEL, 47, 190, 206. M'Mahon, T. O'Brien, 201. Maddox, Dr., 247. Mallet, 11, 15, 27, 40. P. Bolingbroke, and Pope, 82-87. Malone, Edmond, 16. PARKER and Marvell, 143-151. Mandeville, 201. Marlborough, Duke of, Life of, 84, 85, Parr, Dr., 9, 12, 25, 43. Middleton, Dr. Conyers, 25, 29, 182, Pilkington, Mrs., 63. 267, 268. Pocklington, Dr., 199. Milton, 4, 14, 17, 19, 104, 143, 148, Pope, 10, 15, 17, 23, 26, 32, 35, 40, 1 |