It is little to the credit of Dryden, that, having saved up his wrath against Flecknoe so long, he had not reserved it altogether. Flecknoe had been dead at least four years when the satire appeared.

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22

Macaulay quotes Blackmore's Prince Arthur, to illustrate Dryden's dependence upon Dorset:–

"The poets' nation did obsequious wait For the kind dole divided at his gate. Laurus among the meagre crowd appeared, An old, revolted, unbelieving bard, Who thronged, and shoved, and pressed, and would be heard. "Sakil's high roof, the Muse's palace, rung With endless cries, and endless songs he sung. To bless good Sakil Laurus would be first; But Sakil's prince and Sakil's God he curst. Sakil without distinction threw his bread, Despised the flatterer, but the poet fed."

Laurus, of course, stands for Dryden, and Sakil for Dorset.

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23

The Squire of Alsatia is said to have realized him £130.

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24

An Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace.–The word "censure" will, of course, be understood to mean judgment, not condemnation.

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25

Imitation of Horace, Bk. ii. Epist. i.

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26

See the History of England, Vol. IV., Chapter 17, for reference to Shadwell's Volunteers.

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27

History of England, Chapter 19.

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28

Les Salons de Paris.–Foyers Eteints. Par Mme. Ancelot. 12mo. Paris.

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29

It will be remembered that on field-days Murat had adopted a hat and feathers of a most ridiculous kind, and that have become proverbial.

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30

We may be allowed to wonder, however, at his speaking of "memories that burn and revel in the pages of Herodotus,"–a phrase which does injustice to the simple and quiet style of the delightful Pepys of Antiquity.

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