tum. rectionis fuæ nos liberaret & vivificaret. Unde ponamus nos in oratione. Petrus cum aliis fe ad unam partem pofuit. Lazarus cum LXXII, ad aliam: & Magdalena cum aliis mulieribus, ad aliam: & virgo Maria in medio. In cælefti palatio facta eft diffentio inter Patrem & Spiritum fanc O pater (inquit Filius) promifi Apoftolis meis paraclitum & confolatorem: tempus advenit ut promiffionem attendam. Cui Pater. Sum contentus: indica Spiritui fancto. Cui Spiritus fanctus. Dic mihi quomodo te tractavere. Cui filius. Vide me per charitatem. Oftendit ei latus & manus & pedes perfiratos. Heu mihi. Sed vadam in aliam effigiem, quod non audebunt me tangere, Qui defcendit cum maximo ftrepitu. Factus eft repente de cælo fonus tanquam advenientis." "Quomodo Samaritana cognovit Chriftum effe Judeum? Refpondeo quod triplici de caufa. Prima: ad habitum quem portabat. Numeri XVI. Loquere filiis Ifrael ut faciant fibi fimbrias per quatuor angulos palliorum. Hunc habitum Chrif tus habebat. Secunda ratio: quia Nazareus; in cujus capite novaculum non afcendit. Quia Nazarei non poterant effe de alio populo nifi Judaico; unde agnovit. Tertia ratio ad circumcifionem. Nullus populus erat circumcifus nifi Judaicus." "Altercatio facta eft quis debebat ire ad Matrem annuntiare hanc Refurrectionem. Adam dixit: Mihi incumbit, quia fui caufa mali. Respondit Chriftus: Comedis ficus, forte in via morareris. Abel fimiliter dixit; cui Chriftus: Non, quia in venire Cain poffes, qui te occideret. Noë; mihi incumbit: Non ibis, quia bibis libenter. Joannes Baptifta; Ego ibo: Non vere, quia habes indumentum de pilis. Et Latro; Ad me pertinet: Non, quia habes tibias fractas. Miffus eft Angelus, quia cantare cæpit: Regina Cæli, lætare, alleluia; quia quem meruifti portare, alleluia; refurrexit ficut dixit, alleluia." Venit "Non eft peccatum ita Deo abominabile ut peccatum ludi. Et vix eft dare actum in quo concurrant tot mala ficut ex ludo. Et ficut deus invenit XXI literas alphabeti, alie autem poftea funt fuperaddite ad componendum biblia; ubi eft omnis fapientia revelata. Ita diabolus invenit bibliam feu datos, ubi pofuit XXI puncta tanquam literas nigras. Prima litera A, i. e. Amisso temporis, quo nihil eft preciofius. Secunda B, i. e. Blafphemia, 3. C, i. c. Contumelia, nam contumelias fibi dicunt, gulofe, afine fatue. 4. D, i. e. Diffipatio fubftantie temporalis. 5. E, i. e. Ecclefie contemptus. . F, i. e. Furtum. 7. G, i. e. Guld. 8. H, i. c. Homicidium. 9. I, i. e. Invidia. 1o. K, i. e. Cariftia rerum, que fequitur in domo. Modo deficit panis. 11. L, i. e. Laudatio mala quia fe laudat effe bonum luforem. 12. M, i. c. Mendacium. 13. N, i. e. Negligentia. 14. O, i. e. Odium. 15. P, i. e. Participatio fceleris. 16. Q, i. e. Queflio litigiofa. 17. R, i. e. Rapina. 18. S, i. e. Scandalum. 19. T, i. e. Trifticia. 20. U, i. e. Ufura. 21. X, i. e. Xpianitatis vituperatio,' Barlette's fermons have been often reprinted. At least fixteen editions are known, and by fome writers it is faid that twenty editions were printed. They are all, however, rare. The first edition is faid to have been printed in 1470, but this date is confidered apocryphal. The first well-authenticated date is 1497. (See Hain and Clement.) Barlette's fermons, together with thofe by Maillard and Menot, are valuable as commentaries upon the times, and to enable us to better comprehend Rabelais and the Epistola Obfcurorum Virorum. They explain the fact that this laft was, at its appearance and long after, mistaken as the genuine correfpondence between Ortuinus and his friends, and justify Sir William Hamilton in calling that work the best fatire of the Middle Ages. r Adversaria. VI. GENUINE PARTICULARS CONCERNING MR. POPE. MR. POPE was unable to drefs or undrefs himself, or get into bed without help; nor could he ftand upright until a kind of stays, made of ftiff linen, were laced under him, one of his fides being contracted almost to the back-bone. He wanted much waiting on, but was very liberal to the maid-fervants about him, fo that he never had reafon to complain of being neglected. These females attended him at night, and in the Earl of Burlington. After the first course, Pope and I, with my Lord Orrery and VII. Dr. Maty, in his Memoirs of the Earl of Chesterfield, gives the following curious. anecdote of Pope and Bishop Atterbury, in Chesterfield's own words: "I went to Mr. Pope one morning at Twickenham, and found a large folio Bible with gilt clafps lying before him upon his table; and as I knew his way of thinking upon that book, I asked him jocofely if he was going to write an answer to it? It is a prefent, faid he, or rather a legacy, from my old friend the Bishop of Rochester. I went to take my leave of him yesterday in the Tower, where I faw this Bible upon his table. After the firft compliments, the Bishop faid to me, My friend Pope, confidering your Not that good fenfe alone will be sufficient; infirmities, and my age and exile, it is not for that confiderable part of it emending a likely that we should ever meet again; and corrupt text, there must be a certain fatherefore I give you this legacy to remem- gacity, which is fo diftinguifhing a quality ber me by it.-Does your lordship abide in Dr. Bentley. Dr. Clarke had all the by it yourself?—I do.—If you do, my requifites of a critic but this, and this he Lord, it is but lately. May I beg to know wanted. Lipfius, Jos. Scaliger, Faber, Is. what new light or arguments have prevailed Voffius, Salmafius, had it in a great degree; with you now, to entertain an opinion fo but these are few amongst the infinite tribe contrary to that which you entertained of of critics." that book all the former part of your life? -The Bishop replied, We have not time to talk of these things: but take home the book; I will abide by it; and I recommend to you to do so too, and fo God blefs you. ور VIII. Respecting the system of Optimism as fet forth by Pope in the Effay on Man, Warburton, amongst other things, fays: "As to the paffages of Mr. Pope that correfpond with Leibnitz, you know he took them from Shaftesbury, and that Shaftesbury and Leibnitz had one common original, Plato, whofe fyftem of the best, when pushed as far as Leibnitz has carried it, must end in fate. It is pleasant enough to fee the different taste of authors. Leibnitz, in his Théodicée Scheme, objects against Sir Ifaac Newton's theory of attraction, because on that scheme the revolutions of the celeftial orbs could not be performed without a perpetual miracle. And Mr. Baxter makes that very confideration one of the most recommending qualities of that theory, and has, you know, wrote a large book to prove that there is a perpetual miracle in the case; i. e. God's immediate power exerted in every moment of time. I have a poor opinion both of Markland's and Taylor's critical abilities, between friends; I speak from what I have seen. Good fenfe is the foundation of criticism; this is that has made Dr. Bentley and Bishop Hare the two greatest critics that ever were in the world. What he writes to Dr. Birch on felling his library is truly Warburtonian: “I do not at all disapprove of your parting with your library. For I am fully perfuaded Mr. Pope's prophecy will be fulfilled before Will Whiston's: and that his fon Jack will fee the end of learning before the Father gets to the beginning of his Millennium. However, do not be over-hafty, for your books will fell beft when there is nobody that can understand them. That thriving auctioneer will tell you there are always the most buyers where there are the feweft readers. This is the best reafon I have why you should fufpend your project. For the reft, if you would get up into the higher forms, you must do at Lambeth what you formerly did at the CharterHoufe, learn your leffon without book. I confefs myself a dunce; I could never learn this neceffary trick, neither in youth nor age, and have thriven accordingly." IX. Warburton's discovering "the regularity" of Pope's Effay on Criticism, and the "whole scheme" of his Effay on Man, I happen to know to be mere abfurd refinement in creating conformities, and that from Pope himself, though he thought fit to adopt them afterwards. By this method of overlooking the plain and fimple meaning, which prefents itself at first fight (as that of good authors always does, and is the end of writing, and of words themselves, only that there is no credit to be gained in discover Poe's Early Poems. ing what any one else could discover) with proper talents, a good deal of imagination, and more vanity, it might clearly be fhewn I AM defirous of obtaining information that Pope's Art of Criticifm is, indeed, an concerning the first volume of verse pubEfay on Man, and his Efay on Man was, lifhed by the late EDGAR A. Poɛ, its date, really, defigned, by the deep author, for an fize, contents, etc. It appears to be a Art of Criticifm. I know that thefe would fearce book-so scarce, indeed, that Dr. not be more falfe than the affertion and Grifwold never faw it. In his memoir of fophiftry in proving the regularity of his Poe, in The Poets and Poetry of America Art of Criticism, fince he, when often (fixteenth edition, 1855), he refers to it in fpeaking of it, (before he fo much as knew the vagueft terms, "fhirking the details," as Warburton) fpoke of it always, as an "ir- the painters fay, in his customary manner. regular collection of thoughts, thrown to- It is evident that, at the time he wrote the gether as they offered themselves, as Hor- memoir, he knew nothing about it. ace's Art of Poetry was," he faid, "and Profe Writers he fays it was published written in imitation of that irregularity," in 1830. Mr. Duyckinck, in his Cyclopawhich he even admired, and faid was beau- dia, gives the date, publishers, and fize. tiful. In his (Hatch & Dunning, Balt. 1829. 8vo, p. 71), and, I prefume, the title, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. Poe himself, in his own edition of his poetical works, devotes a portion of the volume to Poems Written in Youth, which he introduces by the following Preface: As for his Effay on Man, as I was witnefs to the whole conduct of it in writing, and actually have his original MSS. for it, from the first scratches of the four books, to the several finished copies, (of his own neat and elegant writing thefe laft) all which, with the MS. of his Effay on Criticifm, and feveral of his other works, he gave me himself, for the pains I took in reference to the fin of plagiarism, and othcollating the whole with the printed edi- ers to the date of Tennyfon's first poems— tions, at his request, on my having propofed have induced me, after fome hefitation, to to him the "making an edition of his works republifh thefe, the crude compofitions of in the manner of Boileau's," as to this my earliest boyhood. They are printed verbatim-without alteration from the earnobleft of his works I know that he never "Private reafonsfome of which have dreamed of the scheme he afterwards adopt- ly edition-the date of which is too remote ed, perhaps for good reasons, for he had to be judiciously acknowledged. E. a. p.” taken terror about the clergy, and War- This Preface is characterized by Poe's burton himself, at the general alarm of its ufual mendacity. The poems are not fatalism, and deistical tendency, of which however we talked with him (my father and I) frequently at Twickenham, without his appearing to understand it otherwife, or ever thinking to alter those paffages, which we fuggefted as what might feem the most exceptionable.-Richardfoniana. "printed verbatim without alteration from the early edition"-nor have we any reafon to think them "the crude compoftions of his earliest boyhood." He was at leaft eighteen when they were printed— rather a late period in a man's life to be confidered his "earliest boyhood!" Why he should say the date was too remote to be judiciously acknowledged," I can not fee: the more remote he could make it the 66 better, if he really thought the poems dis- infinite conception. Mufic, when combined with a pleafurable idea, is poetry; mufic without the idea is fimply mufic; the idea without the mufic is profe from its very definiteness." After the profe Introduction, or letter, comes an Introduction in verse, consisting of 66 lines. The first and fourth ftanzas, or divifions, of this poem, are fimilar to the piece which Poe afterwards christened Romance, and printed among his Poems Written in Youth. The third ftanza is remarkable as fhowing his pfychological tendencies, and as forefhadowing the clafs of compofitions in which he afterwards delighted, and on which his reputation chiefly refts: "For, being an idle boy lang fyne, His wit to love-his wine to fire- I could not love except where Death Were stalking between her and me.” The next poem is To Helen, a charming an enigmatical "Dear BThis letter is fmart, but fomewhat flippant, not to fay impertinent. The affured young poet goffips about his art, as fuch, gentry will, and is fevere on two of his elder brethren, Coleridge and Wordfworth, thẻ former of whom he fneers at, preferring Macpherson to him, or rather Temora to Peter Bell. One paffage of the letter is curious little cabinet-piece, which he afterwards reas containing a definition of poetry, fimilar touched, and printed among his youthful to that afterwards adopted by Poe, and in- poems. Then comes frafel. This he fifted upon with vehemence and ingenuity: retouched, expanding it from 44 lines, its "A poem, in my opinion, is opposed to original length, to 51, and printing it among a work of science by having, for its imme- the poems of his manhood. This is foldiate object, pleasure, not truth; to ro- lowed by The Doomed City-58 lines, afmance, by having its object an indefinite terwards fhortened 5 lines, and printed inftead of a definite pleasure, being a poem among his later poems, as The City in the only fo far as this object is attained: ro- Sea. Fairy Land, the next piece, consists mance prefenting perceptible images, with of 64 lines, the last 24 of which he afterdefinite, poetry with indefinite fenfations, to wards expanded into 46, and printed, with which end mufic is an essential, fince the the fame heading, among his early poems. comprehenfion of sweet found is our most Here is the cancelled portion : 1 |