[190] Burnet Homerides, p. 1 of his Translation of the Iliad. [191] The London and Mist's Journals, on his undertaking of the Odyssey. [192] Vide Bossu, Du Poeme Epique, ch. viii. [193] Bossu, chap. vii. [194] Book i. ver. 32, &c. [195] Ver. 45 to 54. [196] Ver. 57 to 77. [197] Ver. 80. [198] Ibid, chap, vii., viii. [199] Bossu, chap. viii. Vide Aristot. Poetic, chap. ix. [200] Cibber's Letter to Mr Pope, pp. 9, 12, 41. [201] See his Essays. [202] Si nil Heros Poetique doit etre un honnete homme. Bossu, du Poeme Epique, lib. v. ch. 5. [203] Dedication to the Life of C. C. [204] Life, p. 2, 8vo edition. [205] Life, ibid. [206] Life, p. 23, 8vo. [207] Alluding to these lines in the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot: 'And has not Colley still his lord and whore, His butchers, Henley, his freemasons, Moore?' [208] Letter to Mr Pope, p. 46. [209] P. 31. [210] Life, p. 23, 24. [211] Letter, p. 8. [212] Letter, p. 53. [213] Letter, p. 1. [214] Don Quixote, Part ii. book ii. ch. 22. [215] See Life, p. 148. [216] Life, p. 149. [217] p. 424. [218] p. 366. [219] p. 457. [220] p. 18. [221] p. 425. [222] pp. 436, 437. [223] p. 52. [224] p. 47. [225] p. 57. [226] pp. 58, 59. [227] A statuary. [228] Life, p. 6. [229] p. 424. [230] p. 19. [231] Life, p. 17. [232] Ibid. p. 243, 8vo edition. [233] Ovid, of the serpent biting at Orpheus's head. [234] 'The Dunciad:' _sic_ MS. It may well be disputed whether this be a right reading. Ought it not rather to be spelled Dunceiad, as the etymology evidently demands? Dunce with an _e_, therefore Dunceiad with an _e_? That accurate and punctual man of letters, the restorer of Shakespeare, constantly observes the preservation of this very letter _e_, in spelling the name of his beloved author, and not like his common careless editors, with the omission of one, nay, sometimes of two _e's_ (as Shakspear), which is utterly unpardonable. 'Nor is the neglect of a single letter so trivial as to some it may appear; the alteration whereof in a learned language is an achievement that brings honour to the critic who advances it; and Dr Bentley will be remembered to posterity for his performances of this sort, as long as the world shall have any esteem for the remains of Menander and Philemon.'--_Theobald_.