Nam quodcunque suis mutatum finibus exit,
Continuo hoc mors est illius, quod fuit ante. i.e.
For what from its own confines chang’d doth pass,
Is straight the death of what before it was.’
Vol. 1. Chap. xxi.
[19]. No. 125.
[20]. The antithetical style and verbal paradoxes which Burke was so fond of, in which the epithet is a seeming contradiction to the substantive, such as ‘proud submission and dignified obedience,’ are, I think, first to be found in the Tatler.
[21]. It is not to be forgotten that the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an Englishman. His other works, such as the Life of Colonel Jack, &c., are of the same cast, and leave an impression on the mind more like that of things than words.
[22]. The Fool of Quality, David Simple, and Sidney Biddulph, written about the middle of the last century, belong to the ancient regime of novel-writing. Of the Vicar of Wakefield I have attempted a character elsewhere.
[23]. The Waiter drawing the cork, in the Rent-day, is another exception, and quite Hogarthian.