To this address his Majesty was pleased to return an answer, very gracious, personally, to the Bishop himself, and expressive of the highest regard for the Clergy of the Established Church.
R. W.
[3] [Edward Foley, Esq. Member of Parliament for the County, and William Langford, D. D. late Prebendary of Worcester.]
[4] The Reverend Mr. Budworth, Head-Master of the Grammar School at Brewood, in Staffordshire. He died in 1745.
[5] Satyra hæc est in sui sæculi poetas, PRÆCIPUE vero in Romanum drama. Baxter.
[6] Præf. in LIB. POET. et l. vi. p. 338.
[7] Mærorem minui, says Tully, grieving for the loss of his daughter, dolorem nec potui, nec, si possem, VELLEM. [Ep. ad Att. xii. 28.] A striking picture of real grief!
Vel tibi composita cantetur Epistola voce;
Ignotum hoc aliis ille novavit opus.
Art. Amat. l. iii. v. 345.
[9] J. Scaliger says, Epistolas, Græcorum more, Phocylidæ atque Theognidis [Horatius] scripsit: præceptis philosophiæ divulsis minimeque inter se cohærentibus. And of this Epistle, in particular, he presumes to say, De Arte quæres quid sentiam. Quid? Equidem quod de Arte sine arte traditâ. And to the same purpose another great Critic; Non solum antiquorum ὑποθηκαι in moralibus hoc habuere, ut ἀκολουθίαν non servarent, sed etiam alia de quibuscunque rebus præcepta. Sic Epistola Horatii ad Pisones de Poëticâ perpetuum ordinem seriemque NULLAM habet; sed ab uno præcepto ad aliud transilit, quamvis NULLA sit materiæ affinitas ad sensum connectendum. [Salmasii Not. in Epictetum et Simplicium, p. 13. Lugd. Bat. 1640.]