FOOTNOTES

This review is justly reckoned one of the finest specimens of criticism in our language, and was read with such eagerness, when published in the Literary Magazine, that the author was induced to reprint it in a small volume by itself; a circumstance which appears to have escaped Mr. Boswell's research.

[20] Ambrose Philips, author of the Distrest Mother, &c.

[21] Edward Ward. See Dunciad, and Biographia Dramatica.

[22] Joseph Mitchell. See Biographia Dramatica.

"Horum simplicitatem sincerae doctrinae, disciplinae sanctitatem, vitae Deo Jicatae integritatem adorabat. Subtilitatem scholarum divina postmodum inquinasse dolebat. Aegerrime tulit sacrorum interpretationem ex sectis sophistarum peti; et Platonis, Aristotelis, Thomas Aquinatis, Scoti; suoque tempore Cartesii, cogitata metaphysica adhiberi pro legibus, ad quas eastigarentur sacrorum scriptorum de Deo sentential. Experiebatur acerba dissidia, ingeniorumque subtilissimorum acerrima certamina, odia, ambitiones, inde cieri, foveri; adeo contraria paci cum Deo et homine. Nihil hic magis illi obstabat; quam quod omnes asserant sacram scripturam [Greek: anthropopathos] loquentem, [Greek: theoprepos] explicandam; et [Greek: theoprepouan] singuli definiant ex placitis suae metaphysices. Horrebat inde dominantis sectae praevalentem opinionem, orthodoxiae modum, et regulas, unice dare juxta dictata metaphysicorum, non sacrarum literarum; unde tam variae; sententiae de doctrina simplicissima." —Orig. Edit.

Near this place lies The body of JOSEPH CAVE, Late of this parish: Who departed this Life, Nov. 18, 1747, Aged 79 years. Me was placed by Providence in a humble station; But Industry abundantly supplied the wants of Nature, And Temperance blest him with Content and Wealth. As he was an affectionate Father, He was made happy in the decline of life By the deserved eminence of his eldest Son, EDWARD CAVE, Who, without interest, fortune, or connexion, By the native force of his own genius,

[69] Wood.

[79] Wood.

Infausta Graecia, tu paris gentes Lubricas, sed amicitias dolosas, Machinando fraudes cautilosas, Ruinando animas innocentes:

which is good Latin enough; and yet is vulgar Spanish, intelligible to every plebeian."—J. B.

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Therefore no hereticks desire to spread Their wild opinions like these epicures. For so their staggering thoughts are computed, And other men's assent their doubt assures. DAVIES.

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[Transcriber's Note: Footnotes have been numbered and relocated to the end of the work.]