While the charm'd reader with thy thought complies, And views thy _Rosamond_ with _Henry's_ eyes. TICKELL to ADDISON. Evidently from the French Horace: En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue; Tout Paris, pour _Chimene_, a les yeux de _Rodrigue_. BOILEAU. Oldham, the satirist, says in his satires upon the Jesuits, that had Cain been of this black fraternity, he had not been content with a quarter of mankind. Had he been Jesuit, _had he but put on Their savage cruelty, the rest had gone!_ Satire ii. Doubtless at that moment echoed in his poetical ear the energetic and caustic epigram of Andrew Marvel, against Blood stealing the crown dressed in a parson's cassock, and sparing the life of the keeper: With the Priest's vestment _had he but put on The Prelate's cruelty--the Crown had gone!_ The following passages seem echoes to each other, and it is but justice due to Oldham, the satirist, to acknowledge him as the parent of this antithesis: On Butler who can think without just rage, _The glory and the scandal of the age_? _Satire against Poetry_. It seems evidently borrowed by Pope, when he applies the thought to Erasmus:-- At length Erasmus, that great injured name, The _glory of the priesthood_ and the _shame_! Young remembered the antithesis when he said, Of some for _glory_ such the boundless rage, That they're the blackest _scandal_ of the age. Voltaire, a great reader of Pope, seems to have borrowed part of the expression:-- _Scandale_ d'Eglise, et des rois le modèle. De Caux, an old French poet, in one of his moral poems on an hour-glass, inserted in modern collections, has many ingenious thoughts. That this poem was read and admired by Goldsmith, the following beautiful image seems to indicate. De Caux, comparing the world to his hour-glass, says beautifully, _C'est un verre qui luit, Qu'un souffle peut détruire, et qu'un souffle a produit._ Goldsmith applies the thought very happily-- Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; _A breath can make them, as a breath has made._ I do not know whether we might not read, for modern copies are sometimes incorrect, A breath _unmakes_ them, as a breath has made. Thomson, in his pastoral story of Palemon and Lavinia, appears to have copied a passage from Otway. Palemon thus addresses Lavinia:-- Oh, let me now into a richer soil _Transplant_ thee safe, where vernal _suns_ and showers Diffuse their warmest, largest influence; And of my _garden_ be the pride and joy! Chamont employs the same image when speaking of Monimia; he says--