[3] Nichols, Lit. Anec. Vol. ii. p. 165.
[4] Johnson, Lives of the Poets, Vol. iii. p. 72.
[5] Prior's Life of Malone, p. 385.
[6] Prior's Malone, p. 370.
[7] Hurd said of Warburton's Pope, that "it was the best edition that was ever given of any classic."
[8] Imit. Bk. i. Epist. vi. ver. 87.
[9] This last sentence was added by Warburton in the later editions of his Pope.
[10] Nichols, Lit. Anec. Vol. IV. p. 429-437.
[11] Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Cunningham, Vol. vi. p. 422.
[12] De Quincey, Works, ed. 1863. Vol. xv. p. 137. He usually maintained the opposite view, and sided altogether with the "they who could see nothing in Pope but 'dust a little gilt.'" "There is nothing," he says, "Pope would not have sacrificed, not the most solemn of his opinions, nor the most pathetic memorial from his personal experiences, in return for a sufficient consideration, which consideration meant always with him poetic effect. Simply and constitutionally, he was incapable of a sincere thought, or a sincere emotion. Nothing that ever he uttered, were it even a prayer to God, but he had a fancy for reading it backwards. And he was evermore false, not as loving or preferring falsehood, but as one who could not in his heart perceive much real difference between what people affected to call falsehood, and what they affected to call truth."