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"Nov. 21, 1796. Read with much curiosity and interest Hurd's Life of Warburton. All the offensive characters of Hurd's manner, which Parr has felt with such discernment, and described with such force, the quaint phrase, the cool sarcastic sneer, the flippant stricture, the

the north, and the south, and from every quarter. In his 'Divine Legation you are always entertained: he carries you 'round and round, without carrying you forward to the point; 'but then you have no wish to be carried forward.' He said to the Rev. Mr. Strahan, Warburton is perhaps the last man, 'who has written with a mind full of reading and reflection.' It is remarkable that in the Life of Broome Johnson takes notice of Dr. Warburton using a mode of expression, which he himself used, and that not seldom, to the great offence of those, who did not know him. Having occasion to mention a note, stating the different parts, which were executed by the associated translators of the Odyssey, he says:-'Dr. Warburton told

me, in his warm language, that he thought the relation given ' in the note a lie. The language is warm indeed; and, I must 'own, cannot be justified in consistency with a decent regard to the established forms of speech.' Johnson had accustomed himself to use the word lie, to express a mistake, or an errour in relation; in short, when the thing was not so as told, though the relator did not mean to deceive. When he thought there was intentional falsehood in the relator, his expression was, 'He lies, and he knows he lies.' Boswell's Life of Johnson 4, 46. "Here he shewed Dr. Burney some volumes of his Shakespeare already printed, to prove that he was in earnest. Upon Dr. Burney's opening the first volume, at the Merchant of Venice, he observed to him that he seemed to be more severe on Warburton than Theobald. O poor Tib!' said Johnson, ‘he was 'ready knocked down to my hands; Warburton stands between VOL. II.

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petulant gibe, the oblique insinuation, the crafty artifice, the mean subterfuge, the fawning suggestion,-are here strikingly manifest. In my opinion of Warburton or himself, which Parr had settled and defined, it has not made a shade of difference. The art, with which Hurd has evaded all notice of Jortin and Leland, is very amusing." P. 17. "Sept. 29, 1799. Parr, Lord Chedworth tells me, is satisfied that Hurd altered his Life of Warburton, in consequence of what he wrote. Had he found in it what he expected to find, he meant to have entered into a general review of Warburton's life, character, and writings. How splendid and appropriate a field for the exhibition of his talents!"* P. 164.

me and him.' 'But, Sir,' said Dr. Burney, you will have War'burton upon your bones, won't you?' No, Sir; he will not 'But you think, Sir,

" come out ; he will only growl in his den.'

' that Warburton is a superior critic to Theobald?' 'O, Sir, 'he would make 52 Theobalds, cut into slices! The worst of

Warburton is that he has a rage for saying something, when 'there is nothing to be said.' Dr. Burney then asked him whether he had seen the Letter, which Warburton had written in answer to a pamphlet addressed To the Most Impudent Man Alive. He answered in the negative. Dr. Burney told him it was supposed to be written by Mallet. The controversy now raged between the friends of Pope and Bolingbroke; and Warburton and Mallet were the leaders of the several parties. Dr. Burney asked him then if he had seen Warburton's book against Bolingbroke's Philosophy? No, Sir; I have never read 'Bolingbroke's impiety, and therefore am not interested about ' its confutation.'" 1, 296.

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Aug. 25, 1797. Read the first Epistle of Horace, L. 2, (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus,) with the aid of Dacier's Notes, and Hurd's Commentary. I am not entirely satisfied with the explanation of either of these critics. Dacier is less happy than usual in his auxiliary lights; and Hurd extracts an order and coherence, which I am una

only by the subscribers. The learned Mr. Gaches was a subscriber, and lent the book to Dr. Parr, who caused extracts to be made, from some apprehension that he might have occasion for them, if any unforseen and unpleasant event should render it necessary for him to resume the controversy with Bishop Hurd. Dr. Parr met with many passages, which offended him; but, as the names of Dr. Jortin and Dr. Leland were studiously avoided, Dr. Parr was resolved not to defend any other excellent men, whom the biographer had treated harshly. Archbishop Secker found an advocate in Mr. W.

: Dr. Parr lamented the languor of the Wykehamists, in suffering the unjust attack upon Bishop Lowth to pass unnoticed. Dr. Parr, in the Correspondence between Bishops Hurd and Warburton, published after the death of Hurd, met with some offensive matter about Leland and Jortin; but as, in consequence of Warburton's Life written by Hurd, and softened too in all probability by Dr. Parr's publication, and perhaps extorted from Hurd sooner than he intended to let it see the light, there has been a considerable change of opinion, Dr. Parr determined not to take up his pen." Bibl. Parr.

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“GUL. WAKBURTONI, A. M. in C. Vell. Paterculi Historias Emendationes, ad amplissimum Virum Theologorum literatissimum, Criticorum scientissimum, F. E. C. A MS. copy of Warburton's Emendations upon Vell. Paterc. republished by Bishop Hurd, and are very With eloquence so vigorous, knowledge so various, and ge

They were not

scarce indeed.

ble to recognize in the original, the true connection and bearing of which, in various passages, eludes all my research. Bentley, tempted perhaps by the difficulty of the subject, is more than usually audacious in his conjectural emendations: he appears, on this occasion, in the elevation of conscious superiority, to give the full reins

nius so splendid, Warburton might justly have laughed at the censures of his contemporaries upon his want of skill in verbal criticism, and his want of practice in Latin composition." P. 645.

"Roma Paganizans, seu Idololatriæ Pontificia Hist. Theol. Examen. Accessit Speculum Papismi. A Johanne Valckeniero, Franc. 1656. 8vo. On the subject of Roma Paganizans see Middleton's Letters from Rome, the Correspondence between Warburton and Middleton, Warburton's solution in the Divine Legation, and various passages in the first volume of the Annals of Baronius." P. 90.

"WARBURTON'S Miscellaneous Translations, in Prose and Verse, from Roman Poets, Orators, &c. 1724. 12mo. This was Warburton's first publication. It is very scarce, having been bought up by his order, as often as it appeared for sale. S. P." P. 227.

"Warburton's Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Miracles, as related by Historians, 1727. 12mo. This edition is very scarce, and was republished by Dr. Parr." P. 122. "This edition is scarce. The work was republished by Dr. Parr, but omitted in Bishop Hurd's edition of Bishop Warburton's Works; and why omitted? For, with all its singularities, it has many marks of the vigorous and original mind of that distinguished Prelate." P. 690.

"Warburton's Julian, or A disourse concerning the Earthquake and Fiery Eruption, which defeated that Emperor's

to his genius; and where it is impossible to force our assent, he at least extorts our admiration, by the extent of his learning, and the vigour of his fancy. Hurd, complexionally of a very different temperament, is always acute, and ingenious, and plausible, even in his most eccentric aberrations. His explanation, in a note on the 14th verse, of Virgil's allegory at the opening of the third Georgic, if it be chimærical, is gradually wrought out with exquisite art, and ultimately displayed with matchless effect; and his disquisitions on the double sense of verbs, (v. 97,) and the rules of criticism, (v. 214,)

Attempt to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem. The Second Edition. 1751. 8. This edition contains a most eloquent Preface, omitted in other editions." P. 122. "The magnificent enquiry of Warburton, in p. 45, of the Preface, deserves to be compared with a sublime passage in Sir Walter Raleigh's remarks on the Roman Empire, p. 668, of his History of the World. S. P." P. 690. "Dr. Parr would here notice one curious fact. The eloquent passage in the Introduction to Warburton's Julian p. 45, was probably suggested to the Bishop by a passage equally eloquent in Sir Walter Raleigh's History, where he is speaking of the fall of the Roman Empire." P. 451.

"TOLANDI Pantheisticon, Cosmopoli 1720. 8vo. Liber rarissimus, with the autograph of J. Towne, the advocate of Bishop Warburton, and the author of several acute and learned works. S. P." P. 457. "Remarks on Dr. Lowth's Letter to the Bishop of Gloucester, with the Bishop's Appendix, and the Second Epistolary Correspondence between his Lordship and the Docior, annexed, 1766. (by Mr. Towne.)" P. 588. "J. Towne's Free and Candid Examination of the Principles advanced by Bishop Sherlock in his Book on Prophecy, 1756. 8vo. An accurate and once famous book. S. P." P. 106.