[144] Ars Poetica, 102.
[145] "There is no criticism of Shakespeare in that day at all comparable to this of Steele's, at the outset and to the close of the Tatler. With no set analysis or fine-spun theory, but dropped only here and there, and from time to time with a careless grace, it is yet of the subtlest discrimination.... He ranks him as high in philosophy as in poetry, and in the ethics of human life and passion quotes his authority as supreme. None but Steele then thought of criticising him in that strain." (Forster.)
[146] Clement XI.
[147] Virgil, "Æneid," ii. 145.
[148] See No. 56, &c.
[149] "The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion Inquired into" was published by Dr. John Eachard in 1670.
[No. 69. [Steele.]
From Thursday, Sept. 15, to Saturday, Sept. 17, 1709.
——Quid oportet
Nos facere, a vulgo longe latèque remotos?
Hor., 1 Sat. vi. 18.