[7] Lives of the Poets, ed. Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 307.
[8] Mémoires, Col. Michaud, 3rd Series, tom. viii. p. 731; Bolingbroke's Works, vol. ii. p. 315, Philadelphia, 1841.
[9] Bolingbroke's Works, vol. ii. p. 315, 317, 320. "The sole question," says Bolingbroke, "is, who caused this disunion?—and that will be easily decided by every impartial man, who informs himself carefully of the public anecdotes of that time. If the private anecdotes were to be laid open as well as those, and I think it almost time they should, the whole monstrous scene would appear, and shock the eye of every honest man." The prediction has been fulfilled, and the vaunting prophet consigned to infamy through the evidence he invoked.
[10] Bolingbroke's Works, vol. i. p. 123.
[11] Bolingbroke's Works, vol. i. p. 124.
[12] Gibber's Apology, 4th ed. vol. ii. p. 11.
[13] Warburton's Pope, ed. 1760, vol. iv. p. 172; Spence, p. 148.
[14] Hurd's Addison, vol. i. p. 299.
[15] Pope related, perhaps truly, that Addison objected to the phrase "Britons arise!" in the Prologue to Cato, and said, "it would be called stirring the people to rebellion." Warburton holds this incident to be a proof that Addison "was exceedingly afraid of party imputations throughout the carriage of the whole affair," as if, because he did not wish to be considered an instigator to rebellion, it followed that he shrunk from seeming an advocate for whig principles.
[16] Pope to Caryll, April 30, 1713.