Note 157 — QUARRELS OF AUTHORS;
Reading edition
“The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated,” vol. i. sec. iv. Observe the remarkable expression, “that last foible of superior genius.” He had evidently running in his mind Milton’s line on Fame—
“That last infirmity of noble minds.”
In such an exalted state was Warburton’s mind when he was writing this, his own character.