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a € C farce , called The Confederates , written to expose the obscenity and false pretence to wit" in the above comedy . P . 574 . € i Cibber ridiculed it upon the stage" in the rehearsal , to a scene in which he added a passage exposing
the false wit of the Mummy and the Crocodiley which had been designed In Three Hours after Marriage , to ridicule Dr . Woodward . Thus appears to have commenced Pope ' s rancour against Cibber . See Dilworth ' s Life of Pope , 1759 , pp . * 106 , 107 ; Johnson , and Biog . Brit . III . 587 .
P . 633 , col . 1 . " Mr . Chandler conducts his flock with great success . " The biographer , to whom I have already referred , speaking of Chandler ' s ministry at Peekham , adds , €€ in which situation his abilities shone with so
much lustre , as to attract the notice of eminent citizens , and to occasion him to be employed in some extraordinary services in the metropolis . "JProt . Diss . Mag .. L 219 . Ibid . "The Nonjuror / ' This , I
apprehend , was Cibber * s < c comedy , acted at the Theatre Royal , 1717 , dedicated to the King , " who rewarded the author with " a grant of ^ 200 . " Jacob says , ( I . 39 , *) that €€ this play
was tifcted for near three weeks together with great applause . " It appears , by Cibber ' s Apology , ( II . 54—56 , ) that the Nonjuror was written with a political design , to counteract Jacobttism , which he says had " lately exerted itself by a most unprovoked rebellion . " ( Biog . Brit . III . 585 . ) Ibid . " Mr . Ridgly . " Probably the author of a " Body of Divinity , " much used as a tewt-book in Calvinistic academies . Ibid . " Stockden . " Perhaps Hubert Stogdon , who wrote in 1714 , in cbncert with Mr . Withers , in the
controversy at Exeter , concerning laybap tism . Of Mr . Stogdon , there is some account , if I recollect right , by Dr . Toulmin , in one of your earlier volumes .
Ibid . " Mr . Pope has lately published all the poems he will own himself author of . " This was a folio volume , 1717 , containing Pastorals , Windsor Forest , Essay on Criticism , Rape of the Lock , Temple of Fame , Translations , and J \ iisceUanies , " including the' Eloisa . On the title-page is the deservedly common quotation
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from Cicero pro Arch . * ' JIa&c studia adole¢iam alunt , " &c . Ibid . This €€ very handsome , smart preface" is prefixed , with a few variations , to Pope ' s Works by Warburtoiu It does not contain any thing about Pope ' s ** having left off writing" or of " his Homer . "
Ibid . " The Kin g and Prince . * There is -a record of this family dissension , ( not uncommon betweeii royalty in possession and royalty in expectance , ) in a volume published in 1789 , from a MS . which had been neglected for 60 vears . It is entitled , " Vie
priv ^ e Du Cardinal Dubois , " written by his Secretary . The Cardinal was sent into England in 1718 , by the Regent of France , to attach George I . to the quadruple alliance . To promote his project , ( p . 125 , ) the crafty minister , who well understood the
dimensions of crowned heads , procured from his own country , dainties to gratify the royal palate , ( Ilfaisait venir , pour ce Prince , des frontages de Cramayel , et—d toutes les postes , les pins belles
t ruffes que Brives pouvait fournir , ) and magnificent dresses , ( pieces d ? itoffe d ' or entires— -des robes du meilleur godt , et de la dernibre mode , ) as presents to the King ' s mistresses , and to the Lords and Ladies of the Court .
He was , ho \ Vever , sometimes more worthily employed ; though his character appears , on the whole , to have been worthless . II travaiile avant son depart k reconcilier le Roi George I .,
avec le Prince de Galles , son fils , L * Abbe , pendant son sfejouj" en An . gleterre , avait employ ^ toutes les voies et tous les inoyens possibles pour procurer cette reconciliation" ( 133 ) , There is no account of his success .
P . 634 , col . 1 . "The Duke of Devonshire . " This peer had lately rendered himself acceptable to the Court by heading a gross outrage on the rights of the people . In 1716 he brought into the House of Lords " the bill to repeal the Triennial Bill , " which being sent to the Commons , was there passed by 264 against 121 .
" Among a thousand unanswerable particulars , which were urged against it / ' says the author of The Use and Abuse " of Parliaments , ( 1744 , I . 205 , 206 ^ ¦ Mr . Snell , " M . P . for Gloucester , said , ** ' If we have a right to continue ourselves one year , ' dite month or day , beyond our triennial
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726 . Notes 6 tf the Memoir * of Mr . Ji Fox .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/30/
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