The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue - Part 3
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[e] Et Appiam mannis terit. _Epod. 4._

[f]

O saepe mec.u.m tempus in ultimum Deducte, Bruto militiae Duce.---- Tec.u.m Philippos & celerem fugam Sensi, relicta non bene parmula c.u.m fracta virtus, & minaces Turpe solum tetigere mento. HOR. _Ode. 7. B. 2._

[g] In his Seneca reus factus est multorum scelerum, sed praesertim quod c.u.m Agrippina rem haberet, nec enim in hac re solum, sed in plerisque aliis contra facere visus est quam Philosophabatur. Quum enim Tyrannidem improbaret, Tyranni praeceptor erat: quumque insultaret iis qui c.u.m principibus versarentur, ipse a Palatio non discedebat. a.s.sentatores detestabatur, quum ipse Reginas coleret & libertos, ac Laudationes quorundam componeret. Reprehendebat divites is, cujus facultates erant ter millies sestertium: quique luxum aliorum d.a.m.nabat quingentes tripodas habuit de ligno cedrino, pedibus eburneis, similes & pares inter se, in quibus coenabat. Ex quibus omnibus ea quae sunt his consentanea, quaeque ipse libidinose fecit, facile intelligi possunt. Nuptias enim c.u.m n.o.bilissima atque ill.u.s.trissima foemina contraxit. Delectabatur exoletis, idque Neronem facere docuerat etsi antea tanta fuerat in morum severitate ut ab eo peteret, ne se oscularetur, neve una sec.u.m coenandi causa disc.u.mberet.

Vid. _Dion. Excerpta per Xiphilinum, Lib. 61._

[h] Collegae tamen, multos n.o.bilium, atque inter eos Crispum etiam Sall.u.s.tium, eum, qui historiam conscripsit, Senatu ejicienti non repugnavit. DION. _Lib. 40._

[i] Ab his Sall.u.s.tius (qui ut Senatoriam dignitatem recupararet tum Praetor factus erat) propemodum occisus. DION. _Lib. 42._

[k] Numidas quoque in suam potestarem Caesar accepit, iisque Sall.u.s.tium praefecit. Sall.u.s.tius & pecuniae captae & compilatae provinciae accusatus, summam infamiam reportavit, quod quum ejusmodi libros composuisset, in quibus multis acerbisque verbis eos, qui ex provinciis quaestum facerent, nota.s.set, nequaquam suis scriptis in agendo sterisset. Itaque etsi a Caesare absolutus fuit, tamen suis ipsius verbis proprium crimen abunde quasi in tabula propositum divulgavit. DION. _L. 43._

[l] See at least a hundred and fifty Places in his late Works.

[m] In quo deformitas corporis c.u.m turpitudine cerrabat ingenii; adco ut animus eius dignissimo domicilio inclusus videretur. VEL. PAT. _L. 2. B.

69._

[n] See the Dunciad.

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1948-1949

15. John Oldmixon, _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ (1712), and Arthur Mainwaring, _The British Academy_ (1712).

16. Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673).

17. Nicholas Rowe, _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear_ (1709).

18. Anonymous, "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No.

10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation_ (1720).

1949-1950

19. Susanna Centlivre, _The Busie Body_ (1709).

20. Lewis Theobald, _Preface to the Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).

22. Samuel Johnson, _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749), and two _Rambler_ papers (1750).

23. John Dryden, _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).

1950-1951

26. Charles Macklin, _The Man of the World_ (1792).

1951-1952

31. Thomas Gray, _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard_ (1751), and _The Eton College Ma.n.u.script_.

1952-1953

41. Bernard Mandeville, _A Letter to Dion_ (1732).

1958-1959

77-78. David Hartley, _Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas_ (1746).

1959-1960

79. William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, _Poems_ (1660).

81. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters: _The Graces_ (1774), and _The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette_ (1776).

1960-1961

85-86. _Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals._

1961-1962

93. John Norris, _Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call'd, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ (1690).

94. An. Collins, _Divine Songs and Meditacions_ (1653).

96. _Ballads and Songs Loyal to the Hanoverian Succession_ (1703-1761).