it afterwards, and said she knew very well whom he meant. -Dr. W.

In the Satire on Women there was a character of the old Duchess of Marlborough, under the name of Orsini, written before Mr. Pope was so familiar with her, and very severe.-Mrs. Arbuthnot, 1744.

There are several lines of Mr. Pope's in Gardiner's translation of Rapin's Poem on Gardens: and many of Dryden's in Sir W. Soames's translation of Boileau's Art of Poetry.-Dr. W.

Speaking of my attachment to Mr. Pope, the Dr. said, "he deserved all that love from you; for I am sure that he loved you very much and I have heard him say so often and with great warmth."-Dr. W.

He mentioned Mr. Pope's being so busied a few days before we lost him, in drawing up arguments for the immortality of the soul. (In a fit of delirium, he rose at four o'clock, and was found in his library writing; he had said something about generous wines helping it; whereas spirituous liquors served only to mortalize it.)Dr. W. from Hooke.

Hooke endeavoured to make a Roman Catholic of the Duchess of Marlborough; (he thought she was going off, and would be willing to catch at any twig,) and that was the occasion of her breaking with him. After all, he himself is only an odd sort of Catholic, in his own (mystic) way.*-Dr. W.

The Duchess of Marlborough was desirous of having an account of her public conduct given to the world. Hooke was recommended to her, by Mr. Pope and others, as a proper person to draw up this account under her own inspection; he performed this work so much to her grace's satisfaction, that she talked of

The Duke of Marlborough's character, intended for the Fourth Epistle of the Essay on Man, I never transcribed but for one very great personage.-Dr. W.

Mr. Pope was very angry with the vicious part of mankind, but the best natured man otherwise, in the world.— Dr. W. .

The Episode on his Dancing-Master, and all the fragments of the Memoirs of Scriblerus, are destroyed.-Dr. W.

It is perhaps singularly remarkable in Mr. Pope, that his judgment was stronger than his imagination when he was young. (Witness his Windsor Forest, and Essay on Criticism, produced at that period.) His imagination stronger than his judgment when he grew old, and produced the Essay on Man.—This plainly shows that the interclouding of his mind, was wholly owing to the weakness of

rewarding him largely, but would do nothing till Mr. Pope came to her, whose company she then sought all opportunities to procure, and was uneasy to be without it. He was at this time with some friends, whom he was unwilling to part with, a hundred miles distant. But at Mr. Hooke's earnest solicitation, when Mr. Pope found his presence so essentially concerned his friend's interest and future support, he broke through all his engagements, and in the depth of winter, and ill ways, flew to his assistance. On his coming, the duchess secured to Mr. Hooke five thousand pounds, and by that means attached him to her service. But soon after she took occasion, as was usual with her, to quarrel with him.

"Her every turn by violence pursu'd

Not more a storm her hate than gratitude."

Thus Mr. Hooke represented the matter.-The reason she gave of her sudden dislike to him, was his attempt to pervert her to Popery. This is not without probability: for he finding her grace without religion, (as appears from the "Account of her Conduct,") might think it an act of no common charity to give her his own.-Ruffhead's Life of Pope, p. 490. Note.

his body; (and is very agreeable to what we saw of him in his last month.)-It was very observable, during that time, that Mrs. Blount's coming in gave a new turn of spirits, or a temporary strength to him.-Dr. W.

Compassion (according to its very name) is nothing but a passion; and may lead one to do what is wrong, as much as aversion, hatred, or anger.-Spence.

SECOND MEMORANDUM BOOK, 1756.

THE Duchess of Portsmouth, when she was in England in 1699, told Lord Chancellor Cowper, that Charles the Second was poisoned at her house, by one of her footmen, in a dish of chocolate.-Dean Cowper.

When Sir Isaac Newton was asked about the continuance of the rising of South Sea Stock ?—He answered, "that he could not calculate the madness of the people."-Lord Radnor.

A friend once said to him, "Sir Isaac, what is your opinion of poetry ?"-His answer was; "I'll tell you that of Barrow ;-he said, that poetry was a kind of ingenious nonsense."-Lord R.

By a very obvious and natural mistake in spelling, councillors become concealers; lawyers, are liars; and justices, just-asses. Mr. Robins.

The following inscription is on a church at Vicenza, dedicated to the Virgin Mary:-"Salve Mater Pietatis; et totius Trinitatis nobile Triclinium."-Mr. Massingberd. [This was confirmed by Dr. Lowth. "The noble couch

for all the Trinity to recline upon."-Under the bust of the builder of a convent in Placentia, “ Vir fuit ista domus quod conditor indicat ejus."]-Spence.

Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader came in. "Nephew, (said Sir Godfrey,) you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world."—" I don't know how great you may be, (said the Guinea-man,) but I don't like your looks: I have often bought a man, much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas."-Dr. Warburton.

Pope was much shocked at overhearing Warburton and Hooke talking of Lord Bolingbroke's disbelief of the moral attributes of God. "You must be mistaken," said he. Pope afterwards talked with Lord B. about it, and he denied it all. Sometime after Pope told his friends of it with great joy, and said, " I told you, I was sure, you must be mistaken."*Dr. W. (He mentioned this as a proof of Mr. Pope's excessive friendliness to Bolingbroke.)

Lord B **** was overcome with terrors and excessive passion in his last illness.-After one of his fits of passion, he was overheard by Sir Henry Mildmay, complaining to himself and saying, "What will my poor soul undergo for all these things ?"-Dr. W.

When the Prince of Wales was at Mr. Allen's, near Bath, on seeing a picture of Mr. Pope, he mentioned the circumstance of his printing those pieces of Lord Bolingbroke, and said he supposed he was not in any fault in doing it. Dr. Warburton, who was present, showed, in part,

*This is related in somewhat different terms in Ruffhead's Life of Pope, p. 219.-Editor.

that he was not;—what he said was strengthened by Mr. Allen, and allowed to be just by Lord Bathurst, who came with the prince. In the original copy of those pieces, there were some things very severe on the king; which Mr. Pope, in concert with Lord B., omitted when they were printed: but he omitted nothing but what was agreed to, and inserted nothing. Dr. W.

Socinus and Crellius were very good men, and meant well; the late recovery of reasoning then, made them carry it too far: but the modern Socinians, I fear, are not Christians; and pay only that sort of respect to Christ, which they might to Socrates.-Dr. W.

Lord Bolingbroke's "Occasional Writer" (the first stroke in his long continued pursuit against Walpole) is one of the best things he ever wrote.-Dr. W.

Christianity seems to have received more hurt from its friends than from its enemies. By their making things parts of it, which are not so; or talking of things as very material to it, which are very little so.-Dr. W.

A very wise man will always have sense enough to see he is a great deal of a fool; but a very fool always looks upon himself as a very wise man. (Madmen, Idiots, and nineteen-twentieths of the rest?)

When a thing is near one, and one wants to know what it is, it looks indistinct enough to be painful to one, even at a hundred yards distance. When a prospect extends very widely, there are objects that are pleasing even for being indistinct, perhaps one hundred miles off.-Spence.

"Why she and Phryne all the auction buys :
Phryne expects a general excise."

This was said of Lady Mary Wortley, and Miss Skirret.