I hold these Prælectiones to be among the very choicest Latin productions of the moderns: I mean not to insult the precious and sacred memory of Lowth by marking in detail the passages, to which I object. S. PARR.”

"There is a remarkable coincidence between what Michaelis says about Lowth in the Præfatio secundo Tomo Prælectionum præmissa, and the words of Saxius (Onom. 7, 280.) about Barthelemy:-( Meum quidem erat, 'non alios, nisi mortuos, laudare, uti etiam, cum hæc 'scriberem, rumor ad nostras acciderat aures, virum egregie doctum rebus humanis sublatum esse. Sed 'postea lætus accepi, eum adhuc vivere et valere, liter'isque bonis etiam nunc prodesse. Fruatur sane vivus laude, quam ei diutissime privam esse volo. Omne 'certe nuper tulit punctum, cum misceret utile dulci, hoc est, cum Anacharsidis, unius de septem sapientibus 'gente orti, Iter per Græciam jucundissimo pariter atque ' eruditissimo fabulæ involucro exponeret, simulque ejus ' ætatis variarum Græciæ urbium, Athenarum, Thebarum, Corinthi, Sparta, situm, dignitatem, vitam publicam privatamque, viros domi militiæque claros, et monumenta ad fidem veterum librorum describeret, Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece, dans le Milieu 'du quatrieme Siecle avant l' Ere vulgaire, à Paris, 1788. 4. et 8. et à Herve, 1789. 8.') 69.*

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*In p. 281, Saxius draws the following character of Vincentius Gaudius, and, had he been an English scholar intimate with Warburton, he would have been a great ornament of the Warburtonian school: "Hanc autem Dissertationem Horatianam, quæ mirifice scripta est, cum legerem, statim animadverti hominem inconstantem, querulum, iracundum, vindictæ

"In p. 6, in the Preface to the fifth volume (of the Anthologia Græca,) Jacobs falls into a mistake, from which Toup, Taylor, and in one instance even Bp. Lowth, are not exempt: he puts ut with an indicative, where a subjunctive ought to follow: his words are, ut poterit." S. PARR." P. 136.

"Erasmi Colloquia Familiaria, Opus aureum, Lond. 1717. 12mo. This book belonged to Frank Parr, and is given by Dr. Parr to John Bartlam. In the 3d paragraph of the address Ad Lectorem, written by the learned John Clark of Lincoln, there is false Latin: for ut, that,' is used with an indicative mood: Ut nihil fere desiderari poterit, quod prima statim indagine non prosiliat, seque exhibeat disquirenti. So once Bp. Lowth, in his Hebrew Prælections, and once Jacobs, in his Preface to one of his volumes of the Anthologia, has in the same way written poterit. S. PARR." P. 297.

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Bp. Lowth's Ratcliffe Infirmary Sermon, 1779. very good." P. 607. "Lowth's Assize-Sermon, 1766. Dr. Parr was looking after this famous Sermon for 30 years." P. 687. I had the pleasure of enriching his library with

this copy.

In the Preface to the Two Tracts of a Warburtonian

cupidum, et maledicum fuisse, obstupuique, eum in doctores Academiæ Gottingensis tam inhumaniter potuisse debacchari, tanquam Jo. M. Gesnerum, quem mox plumbeum p. 224. 315. 317. mox corniculam Æsopi, p. 276. mox infelicissimum expositorem, p. 283. vocat, mox confusum ei cerebrum tribuit, 283. (2.) et deesse ei sensum communem, ipse fortassis sensus communis expers, ait, p. 227. Eodem modo Chr. Guil. Fr. Walchium os durum nominat, p. 246. et G. Chr. Hambergerum indignis modis tractat, p. 200. 201. 316, 24.”

p.

p. 183, Dr. Parr writes: :- "In the fulness of his meridian glory, he (Warburton) was caressed by Lord Hardwicke and Lord Mansfield; and his setting lustre was viewed with nobler feelings than those of mere forgiveness, by the amiable and venerable Dr. Lowth." Perhaps Lowth is intended in the following words of Dr. Parr p. 182.:"He (Warburton) will not be exalted perhaps by the exuberant and courtly compliments of the Author of the Estimate, nor by the more stately and solemn decisions of the Commentator upon Horace; but he certainly will not be degraded by the keen raillery of Mr. Edwards, nor the rough reproaches of a far more powerful, and far more respectable writer, whom I wish to remember under every other name, than as the popular, for I cannot add, the victorious adversary of Bp. Warburton." This is a little too ænigmatically expressed for such a plain Davus as I am to interpret. Gibbon is certainly not meant, because Dr. Parr has in p. 192, pronounced him to be ' a victorious adversary' of Warburton.

Spence, as a friend of Lowth,* (his successor in the Professorship of Poetry in 1741,) who had furnished him with the Judgment of Hercules, in the Polymetis, was, of course, honoured with the abuse of Warburton in his Letters to Hurd:

In Toup's Cura Posteriores sive Appendicula Notarum atque Emendationum in Theocritum Oxonii nuperrime publicatum, Lond. 1772. 4to. I find three flippant attacks on Bishop Lowth:

P.26. Idem autem ὑποκόλπιος et ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ: quomodo locutus est D. Joannes 13, 23. Hv dè ȧvaκeíμevos εἷς τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τοῦ ̓Ιησοῦ, ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ ̓Ιησοῦς. In gremio vocat Juvenal. 2, 120.

"May 20, 1752. Dodsley's editors intended to fritter my Discourse on Virgil's Sixth Book into Notes, which I could not hinder but by allowing them to transcribe it entire. But I have done like common offenders, when they are taken, impeached my friends and accomplices. I have discovered to them where two excellent notes are hid, on a passage in the third Georgic; which they have seized upon with great eagerness. The truth of the matter is, I suppose, this edition of Virgil will be but gallimaufry, (from one concerned in the direction of it, Spence, who is an extreme poor creature, and has met his reward, as all such do ;) and I was willing to have you in with me to keep me in countenance.” P. 111.

ingens

Cana sedet, gremio jacuit nova nupta mariti

Quod perinde est. Sed de toto hoc commercio, quod antiquissimum est, et neutiquam indecorum, consulendus omnino vir illustrissimus, et cui sexcenti Hebrææculi non sunt pares, eruditissimus Potterus in Archæol. Gr. 4, 20. Quod in primis notabit homo male sedulus, et qui nec me nec mea satis intellexit. Sed parco homini, qui nemini pepercit." P. vii.

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Quod vero scripsimus ad 14, 37. de verbo úπокÓλTOS VERUM est et HONESTUM. Sed rem pro singulari sua sagacitate minus ceperunt nonnulli Oxonienses; qui et me sugillare haud erubuerunt, homunculi eruditione mediocri, ingenio nullo; qui in Hebraicis per omnem fere vitam turpiter volutati, in literis elegantioribus plane hospites sunt. Sed de hoc viderit Academia." P. 29. "Cantilenam autem istam, A Bottle-Song, in Harmodium conscripsit Callistratus, quem ideo poetam ingeniosum et valde bonum civem vocat cl. Louthius in Prælectionibus suis; qui et scolium integrum vel dedit vel pessundedit. Sed de hoc plura alibi.”

"May 17, 1759. I understand that that passage in the poor creature Spence concerning polemics has given general offence. But it was mere chance-medley. Nor do I suppose that the grandees, who are offended at it, know the true grounds of the scandal it so reasonably causes. They think it indecent in him, because he is a clergyman; we know it is absurd and nonsensical, because he is a Christian." P. 284.

VIII. JORTIN.

"Dec. 1, 1755. Mr. Balguy and I think much more hardly of Jortin than you do. I could say much of this matter at another time." HURD p. 202.

"Dec. 21, 1755. Just now Mr. Allen has shewn me a pamphlet," ('entitled On the Delicacy of Friendship, a Seventh Dissertation, addressed to the Author of the Sixth,' H.) "which, he says, was sent to him by the post, though I had seen the title, without knowing what to make of it, in the Newspapers. I have read it, and you may judge with what sentiments. Though I have no data to judge from what quarter it comes, yet I am as sure of the author as if I had seen it written; for I know but of one man, from whose heart, or whose pen so fine a piece of irony could come. Therefore, if I be mistaken, do not undeceive me; for the pleasure of thinking from whence it comes to me, is as great as the gift. In the mean time I say to every body else, (even to Mr. Allen, who, however, on the first reading told me that the keen softness, the politeness, and the delicacy, he thought, could come but from one hand,) what I say to you, that I have had no data to judge of the author; that I saw it first by accident after the publication; and that I am sure