Lo sneering Gocde, half malice, and half whim, A fiend in glee, ridiculously grim. Each cygnet sweet, of Bath and Tunbridge race, 155 REMARKS. 160 party-writers, worthily coupled together, and, one would think, prophetically; since, after the publishing of this piece the former dying, the latter succeeded him in honour and employment. The first was Philip Horneck, author of a Billingsgate paper called The High German Doctor. Edward Roome was son of an undertaker for funerals in Fleet-street, and writ some of the papers called Pasquin, where, by malicious innuendoes, he endeavoured to represent our Author guilty of malevolent practices with a great man then under prosecution of parliament. Of this man was made the following epigram: "You ask why Roome diverts you with his jokes, "Yet if he writes as dull as other folks, "You wonder at it---This, Sir, is the case, "The jest is lost, unless he prints his face." P-ple was the author of some vile plays and pamphlets. He published abuses on our Author in a paper called The Prompter. v. 153.---Goode.] An ill-natured critic, who writ a satire on our Author, called The Mock Esop, and many anonymous libels in newspapers, for hire. VARIATIONS. v. 157. Each songster, riddler, &c.] In the former edit. 164 Down, down the larum, with impetuous whirl, REMARKS. 170 v.15.---Ralph. James Ralph, a name inserted after the first editions, not known to our author till he writ a swearing-piece called Sawney, very abusive of Dr. Swift, Mr. Gay, and himself. These lines alluded to a thing of his entitled Night, a poem. This low writer attended his own works with panegyrics in the Journals, and once in particular praised himself highly above Mr. Addison, in wretched remarks upon that author's account of English Poets printed in a London Journal, Sept. 17, 1728. He was wholly illiterate, and knew no language, not even French. Being advised to read the Rules of dramatic poetry before he began a play, he smiled, and replied, Shakespeare writ without rules." He ended at last, in the common sink of all such writers, a political newspaper, to which he was recommended by his friend Arnall, and received a small pittance for pay. IMITATIONS. v. 166. And maker right bideous.------] Visit thus the glimpses of the moon, "Making night hideous.' Shakesp. v. 169. Flow, Welsted, flow! &c.] Parody on Denham, Cooper's Hill: "O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream "Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Lo sneering Goode, half malice, and half whim, A fiend in glee, ridiculously grim. Each cygnet sweet, of Bath and Tunbridge race, 155 REMARKS. 160 party-writers, worthily coupled together, and, one would think, prophetically; since, after the publishing of this piece the former dying, the latter succeeded him in honour and employment. The first was Philip Horneck, author of a Billingsgate paper called The High German Doctor. Edward Roome was son of an undertaker for funerals in Fleet-street, and writ some of the papers called Pasquin, where, by malicious innuendoes, he endeavoured to represent our Author guilty of malevolent practices with a great man then under prosecution of parliament. Of this man was made the following epigram: "You ask why Roome diverts you with his jokes, "Yet if he writes as dull as other folks, "You wonder at it---This, Sir, is the case, "The jest is lost, unless he prints his face." P-ple was the author of some vile plays and pamphlets. He published abuses on our Author in a paper called The Prompter. v. 153.---Goode.] An ill-natured critic, who writ a satire on our Author, called The Mock Æsop, and many anonymous libels in newspapers, for hire. VARIATIONS. v. 157. Each songster, riddler, &c.] In the former edit. There, dim in clouds, the poring scholiasts mark: Wits, who, like owls, see only in the dark, A lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, never to be read! But, where each science lifts its modern type, Hist'ry her pot, Divinity her pipe, 195 200 While proud Philosophy repines to show, REMARKS. 205 v. 199---lo! Henley stands, &c.] J. Henley the orator; he preached on the Sundays upon Theological matters, and on the Wednesdays upon all other Sciences. Each auditor paid one shilling He declaimed some years against the greatest persons, and occasionally did our Author that honour. v. 204.---Sherloc, Hare, ---Gibson.] Bishops of Salisbury, Chichester, and London; whose Sermons and Pastoral Letters did honour to theircountry as well as stations. VARIATIONS. 7. 197. In the first edition it was, And proud Philosophy with breeches tore, Р But Fate with butchers plac'd thy priestly stall, A Newton's genius, or a Milton's flame: That beams on earth, each virtue he inspires, 210 215 220 But, "Learn, ye Dunces! not to scorn your God." 225 230 REMARKS. v. 212. Of Toland and Tindal, see Book II. ver. 309. Thomas Woolston was an impious madman, who wrote, in a most insolent style, against the miracles of the Gospel, in the years 1626, &c. IMITATIONS. v. 2. Learn, ye Dances! not to scorn your God." "Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos." Virg. |