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Mr. Thornhill fent to me for his own book, which

he paid for to you, as he fays, and paid me eight guineas of the fubfcriptions of

Sarah, Countess of Whinchelsea.

Mrs. Seymour.

Berkley Seymour, Efq.

Charles Frotherby, Esq.

Mr. Harcourt and Lord Harcourt have had thirteen books to their house, ten of which were of the finest paper.

I will observe your directions about Mr. Broome. The second volume of Homer fhall be fent in a day

or two.

The project for printing the first book of Homer, with Mr. Dryden's, and Mr Tickle's, and Mr. Manwarring's, together, is well thought of. I propofed it to Mr. Tonfon, but it will not do. I will confider further of it.

The Duke of Ormond is to be impeached for hightreason, and Earl of Stafford for high crimes and mifdemeanors.

May fuccefs attend your ftudies, is the hearty prayer of

Yours, to command.

LETTER XLIX.

MR. STEELE TO MR. LINTOTT.

Mr. Lintott,

MR.

Auguft 4, 1712.

R. Addison defired me to tell you, that he wholly disapproves the manner of treating Mr. Dennis in a little pamphlet by way of Dr. Norris's account *. When he thinks fit to take notice of Mr. Dennis's objections to his writings t, he will do it in a way Mr. Dennis fhall have no just reason to complain of. But when the papers above-mentioned were offered to be communicated to him, he faid he could not, either in honour or confcience, be privy to fuch a treatment, and was forry to hear of it.

I am,

Your, etc.

Of the frenzy of Mr. John Den-, written by Mr. Pope, Sen his Letter to Mr. Addison of July 30, 1714.

Remarks upon Cato.

LETTER L.

MR. FENTON TO MR. LINTOTT.

Mr. Lintott,

September 14, 1719.

PRAY give my most humble service to Mr. Pope,

and tell him, I beg the favour of him to let me know when he comes to town, what morning I shall wait on him at his lodging; for I walk out in a morning fo often, that I may therewife lose an opportunity of seeing him.

Lib. xxii. ver. 132. The first part of Dacier's note is taken from Euftathius; but inftead of Aurelius Victor and Dion, he quotes Herodotus, without mentioning the book he takes it from.

Ver. 467. I cannot find that Euftathius affigns the fame reasons that Mm. does, why Apollo and Neptune do not fight with one another.

Your, etc.

I will endeavour to find out the paffage above

mentioned in Herodotus.

I

LETTER LI.

FROM MR. FENTON.

HAVE received a specimen of the extracts from Euftathius but this week. The first gentleman who undertook the affair, grew weary, and now Mr. Thirlby, of Jefus, has recommended another to me with a very great character *. I think, indeed, at first fight, that his performance is commendable enough, and have fent word for him to finish the 17th book, and to fend it with his demands for his trouble. He engageth to complete a book every month till Chriftmas, and the remaining books in a month more, if you require them. The last time I faw Mr. Lintott, he told me that Mr. Broome had offered his fervice

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again to you; if you accept it, it would be proper for him to let you know what books he will undertake, that the Cambridge gentleman may proceed to the reft.

I am, etc.

I have here inclofed the fpecimen; if the reft come before the return, I will keep 'em till I receive your orders. I have defired the gentleman to write the reft in folio, with half the page left blank.

* Dr. Jortin.

Jortin, who never heartily forgave Pope, has given an account of this tranfaction.

LETTER LII.

FROM MR. WYCHERLEY.

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February 19, 1706-7.

of the 26th, as kind as it is

HAVE received yours ingenious, for which therefore I most heartily thank you. It would have been much more welcome to me, had it not informed me of your want of health; but you who have a mind fo vigorous, may well be contented with its crazy habitation; fince (you know) the old fimilitude fays, the keennefs of the mind fooneft wears out the body, as the fharpeft fword fooneft destroys the scabbard: fo that (as I fay) you must be fatisfied with your apprehenfion of an uneafy life, though I hope not a fhort one; notwithstanding that generally your found wits (though weak bodies) are immortal hereafter, by that genius, which fhortens your prefent life, to prolong that of the future. But I yet hope, your great, vigorous, and active mind will not be able to destroy your little tender, and crazy carcafs.

Now to fay fomething to what you write concerning the prefent epidemic diftemper of the mind and age, calumny; I know it is no more to be avoided (at one time or another of our lives) than a fever or an ague; and, as often those diftempers attend or threaten the beft conftitutions, from the worst air;

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