a Postscript, and some alterations in the pamphlet itself. In the title-page of this edition he has inserted his name.

9. Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature, Ipswich, 1810. 4to. pp. 241.

10. Prayers for Families, consisting of a Form short, but

Dedication of Horace's Epistle to Augustus, with an English Commentary and Notes:-'It was not enough, in your enLARGED VIEW OF THINGS, to restore either of these models, '(Aristotle or Longinus,) to their original splendour. They 'were both to be revived; or rather A NEW ORIGINal plan of 6 CRITICISM to be struck out, WHICH SHOULD UNITE THE VIRTUES OF EACH OF THEM. This experiment was made on the two greatest of our own poets, (Shakespeare and Pope,) and by reflecting all the LIGHTS OF Tthe imagination on the severest reason, every thing was effected, which the warmest 'admirer of ancient art could promise himself from such a 'union. BUT YOU WENT FARTHER; - by joining to these powers A PERFECT INSIGHT INTO HUMAN NATURE, and so ennobling the exercise of literary, by the justest moral cen'sure, YOU HAve at length aDVANCED CRITICISM TO ITS FULL GLORY!'"

The Bishop of Gloucester "sometimes reached," says Dr. Parr, (Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian p. 150,) "the force of Longinus, but without his elegance, and you exhibited the intricacies of Aristotle without his exactness. When a celebrated Commentary upon Horace was first published, Malone, Reed, Farmer, Tyrwhitt, Steevens, the two Wartons, Burke, and in his critical capacity, Dr. Johnson, had not come forward as the guides of the public taste. This is SOME sort of plea for setting Warburton at the head of English critics. I cannot so readily account for the superiority assigned him over Longinus and Aristotle, unless the Commentator had

comprehensive, for the Morning and Evening of every Day in the Week: selected by the late Edw. Pearson D. D. Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Christian Advocate in that University. To which is prefixed a Biographical Memoir of the Editor by Mr. Green, 1819. 12mo. 4th. edn.

read their works, as Warburton was now and then suspected of reading them, in a French translation. Our critic knew 'that it was not every wood, that will make a Mercury,' and yet he compliments Warburton, as if nobody would dispute the fitness of that, which was growing so near the altar,' (Note on line 15. of the Epistle to Augustus.) The Commentator, it seems, was offended with Lipsius for exalting an 'Archbishop of Mecklin with Pagan complaisance, into the ' order of Deities.' I wish to know whether, if he had written the Dedication to Horace in Latin, he would have found it consistent with his own Christian complaisance, to have called Warburton a deus in criticism, just as Scævola calls Crassus in dicendo deum, (de Orat. 1. et 2.) and, as Cicero, in addressing the Senate after his return from exile, says of Lentulus, that he was the parens et deus nostræ vitæ, fortunæ, memoriæ, nominis, etc. I am far from wishing to apologize for the shocking adulation of Lipsius, or to recommend the abovementioned use of deus to a modern writer of Latin. But I suspect that no man, who understands the Latin language, will find more of the spirit of flattery in the word deus restrained and limited by its subject, than in the pompous pageantry of praise spread by the Commentator over the Rev. Mr. Warburton, when the latter was advancing fast towards a Bishoprick." “May 12, 1800. Read Hurd's Notes on Horace's Epistle to Augustus," says Mr. Green p. 220. "In the Dedication he requires, in a perfect critic, reason, or what he calls a philosophic spirit,' to penetrate the grounds of excellence in every

" April 19, 1797. Consulted, for a particular purpose, Warburton's Divine Legation. One would, a priori, have supposed it impossible to weave such a miscellaneous mass of knowledge on all subjects, upon the slender and fragile thread of his Demonstration. For vigour of intellect, and amplitude of information, Warburton is almost without a rival; but his judgment and his taste are both defective. An implicit adoption of the first and hasty suggestions of his prompt and ardent mind, seems to have been his predominant foible; and to this cause, I think, may be referred that waste of powers and erudition, in the support of untenable paradoxes, which vitiates so large a portion of his literary labours: the pains, which should have been bestowed on the discovery of truth, were perversely misapplied to the maintenance of error." P. 31.

"Dec. 6, 1799. Looked through the third book of Warburton's Divine Legation. It is impossible to pursue this eccentric genius steadily through the mazy curves, along which he wheels his airy flight; fetching in and

different species of composition; and taste, or what he terms a 'strong imagination,' to feel those excellencies himself, and to impress them upon others. Aristotle he considers as transcendant in the former department, Longinus in the latter, and then, oh monstrous adulation! he compliments Warburton as perfect in both; and as exciting jealousy, because great to judge as to invent! How could such a sycophant write the Note on v. 15. ?"

On May 9th in the same year, Mr. Green p. 220, "looked into Pretyman's Theology. The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome. Fawning adulation is at all times, and on all occasions surfeiting; but from a Bishop to his political creator, such cant is peculiarly offensive and detestable."

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inclosing,' (as Bacon expresses it,) by a winding expatiation, matter which speaks nothing to the purpose.' He contends (sect. 2,) that the genius of their religion taught the antient sages to conclude that utility, not truth, is the end of religion; that utility and truth, consequently, do not coincide, and that it is lawful and expedient to deceive for the public good. He himself (sect. 6,) on the contrary maintains, (from a petitio principii, I think,) that truth is nothing but that relation of things, which is attended with universal benefit; that truth and utility must, therefore, necessarily coincide, that truth is productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth; and consequently that religion, or the idea of the relation between the creature and the Creator, as useful, must be true. He afterwards observes, very justly, that there never was a great conqueror, legislator, or founder of religion, who had not a mixture of enthusiasm and policy in his composition ;of enthusiasm to influence the public mind, and of policy to direct it." P. 182.

"Febr. 16, 1800. What Dr. Hey says (in the Lectures in Divinity 1, 12, 15.) in a note immediately afterwards, of Warburton's talking of the roguery, that is apt to mix with enthusiasm, relates, I suppose, to that passage in the D. L. 3, 6. which maintains the mixture of enthusiasm and policy in all great conquerors and founders of States, though it hardly sustains the charge." P. 199. "Febr. 25. Finished a perusal of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a most extraordinary contexture of strange tales undoubtedly, and woven one into the other with exquisite and inimitable address, but of which it is surely impossible to think, with Warburton (D. L. 3, 3.) that it was constructed on a grand regular plan, as a popular history of

Providence; inculcating, by a methodical series of fables founded on a corruption of Pagan history from the creation of the world, down to his own times, that the Gods punished impiety!-a discovery, in all respects, worthy of its author." P. 201. "March 7. "In the 6th book (of Virgil's Eneid) I do not discover a single trait, which warrants Warburton's wild hypothesis. Both the topography and economy of the regions below, appear perplexed and obscure; and the whole subterraneous scene,— even Elysium itself, most fearfully gloomy." P. 204.*

*[" Johnson, who had done liberal justice to Warburton in his edition of Shakespeare, which was published during the life of that powerful writer, with still greater liberality took an opportunity, in the Life of Pope, of paying the tribute due to him, when he was no longer in high place,' but numbered with the dead. It seems strange that two such men as Johnson and Warburton, who lived in the same age and country, should not only not have been in any degree of intimacy, but been almost personally unacquainted. But such instances, though we must wonder at them, are not rare. If I am rightly informed, after a careful enquiry, they never met but once, which was at the house of Mrs. French, in London, well known for her elegant assemblies, and bringing eminent characters together. The interview proved to be mutually agreeable." (I remember that Dr. Parr once observed to me that Bishop Warburton was the only great literary character of his day, who was personally unknown to him. E. H. B.) "I am well informed that Warburton said of Johnson, I admire him, but I cannot bear his style;' and that Johnson being told of this, said, 'That is exactly my case as to him.' The manner, in which he expressed his admiration of the fertility of Warburton's genius, and of the variety of his materials, was;— The table is always full, Sir. He brings things from