ger of Warburton, and the sternness of Johnson, who seems always to have considered an Actor as an inferiour being among Men of Genius, have degraded Cibber. They never suspected, that a fine comic genius, "a blockhead of his size, could do what wiser men could not”—command a whole province in human nature.

POPE AND ADDISON.

THE Quarrel between Pope and Addison originated in one of the infirmities of Genius-a subject of inquiry even after their death, by Sir William Blackstone-Pope courts Addison -suspects Addison of jealousy-Addison's foible, to be considered a great Poet-Interview between the Rivals, of which the result was the portrait of Atticus, for which Addison was made to sit.

AMONG the Literary Quarrels of Pope, one acquires dignity and interest from the characters of both parties; it is that, which closed at length by producing the severest, but the most masterly portrait of one Man of Genius, composed by another, which has ever been hung on the satiric Parnassus, for the contemplation of ages. Addison must descend to posterity with the dark spots of Atticus staining a purity of character which had nearly proved immaculate.

The friendship between Pope and Addison had been interrupted by one of the infirmities of Genius. Tempers of watchful delicacy gather up in silence and darkness motives so shadowy in their