A discourse concerning ridicule and irony in writing (1729)
Chapter 8
22. Samuel Johnson, _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749), and two _Rambler_ papers (1750).
23. John Dryden, _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).
1950-1951
26. Charles Macklin, _The Man of the World_ (1792).
1951-1952
31. Thomas Gray, _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard_ (1751), and _The Eton College Manuscript_.
1952-1953
41. Bernard Mandeville, _A Letter to Dion_ (1732).
1963-1964
104. Thomas D'Urfey, _Wonders in the Sun; or, The Kingdom of the Birds_ (1706).
1964-1965
110. John Tutchin, _Selected Poems_ (1685-1700).
111. Anonymous, _Political Justice_ (1736).
112. Robert Dodsley, _An Essay on Fable_ (1764).
113. T. R., _An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning_ (1698).
114. _Two Poems Against Pope:_ Leonard Welsted, _One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope_ (1730), and Anonymous, _The Blatant Beast_ (1742).
1965-1966
115. Daniel Defoe and others, _Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal_.
116. Charles Macklin, _The Covent Garden Theatre_ (1752).
117. Sir George L'Estrange, _Citt and Bumpkin_ (1680).
118. Henry More, _Enthusiasmus Triumphatus_ (1662).
119. Thomas Traherne, _Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation_ (1717).
120. Bernard Mandeville, _Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables_ (1704).
1966-1967
123. Edmond Malone, _Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Mr. Thomas Rowley_ (1782).
124. Anonymous, _The Female Wits_ (1704).
125. Anonymous, _The Scribleriad_ (1742). Lord Hervey, _The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue_ (1742).
1967-1968
129. Lawrence Echard, Prefaces to _Terence's Comedies_ (1694) and _Plautus's Comedies_ (1694).
130. Henry More, _Democritus Platonissans_ (1646).
132. Walter Harte, _An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad_ (1730).
1968-1969
133. John Courtenay, _A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson_ (1786).
134. John Downes, _Roscius Anglicanus_ (1708).
135. Sir John Hill, _Hypochondriasis, a Practical Treatise_ (1766).
136. Thomas Sheridan, _Discourse ... Being Introductory to His Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759).
137. Arthur Murphy, _The Englishman From Paris_ (1736).
138. [Catherine Trotter], _Olinda's Adventures_ (1718).
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Footnotes:
[28] _Page_ 337.
[29] _Pag._ 302.
[30] _Page_ 301.
[31] _Pag._ 307.
[32] Stillingfleet's _Answer to several late Treatises_, &c. _Page_ 14.
[33] _Pag._ 71.
[34] Vindication of the Answer to the Royal Papers. _p._ 105.
[35] _Preface to_ Unreasonableness of Separation. _p._ 62.
[36] Rule's _Rational Defence_ of Nonconf. _p._ 29.
[37] _Preface to_ Stillingfleet _still against_ Stillingfleet.
[38] _Preface to a Discourse of_ Miracles wrote in the _Roman_ Church, _&c._
[39] See _Stillingfleet_'s Second Vind. of the Protestant Grounds of Faith, _c._ 3.
[40] _Edwards's_ New Discov. _p._ 184-215.
[41] _Ecclesiast. Hist._ cent. 8. _p._ 196.
[42] Vind. _p._ 199.
[43] _See_ Shaftesbury's _Characteristicks_, Vol. I. p. 61.
[44] Memoirs de Trevoux, _An._ 1707. _p._ 396. _An._ 1717. _p._ 1200.
[45] _Trapp_'s Popery truly stated, _p._ 123.
[46] _Preface._
[47] _Heylin_'s History of the Presbyterians, _p._ 391.
[48] _Wotton_ on the _Misna_, p. 118.
[49] _Freeholder_, Nº 30.
[50] _Freeholder_, Numb. xlv.
[51] _See_ Cicero de Officiis, _l._ 1. _c._ 30.
[52] _See_ Patrick_'s Friendly Debate_, Part 1, _p._ 139-141. 5_th Edit._
[53] _Preface to_ The State of the Roman Catholick Religion, _p._ 11.
[54] De Divin. l. 2. c. 25.
[55] _Rog. Hoveden_, Pars ii. p. 520.
[56] 1 _Kings_ xviii.
[57] _Psalm_ ii. 4.
[58] _Gen._ iii. 22.
[59] Archæolog. Philos. _l._ 2. _c._ 7.
[60] Shaftesbury _in Charact._ Vol. 3. _and_ Whitchcot_'s Sermons_: Vol. I.
[61] Shaftesbury's _Characteristicks_, Vol. I. p. 71.
[62] _Page_ 307.
[63] _How useful_ Lestrange_'s_ Observators, _which were design'd to expose the Dissenters to Contempt and Persecution, were deem'd to the Church at the time they were publish'd, may be judged of by Bp._ Burnet, _who says_ [_in his_ Eighteen Papers, _p._ 90.] "_Another Buffoon was hired to plague the Nation with three or four Papers a Week, which to the Reproach of the Age in which we live, had but too great and too general Effect, for poisoning the Spirits of the Clergy._"
[64] _In this Work the Dissenters and Low Churchmen are sufficiently rally'd and abus'd, and particularly the_ Free-Thinkers, _whose_ Creed _is therein represented as consisting of these two Negatives_, No Queen and no God. _Examiners_, Vol. 3. p. 12.
_Mr._ Addison _tells us_ [Freeholder Nº. 19.] "_the_ Examiner _was the favourite Work of the Party. It was usher'd into the World by a Letter from a Secretary of State, setting forth the great Genius of the Author, the Usefulness of his Design, and the mighty Consequences that were to be expected from it. It is said to be written by those among them whom they look'd upon as their most celebrated Wits and Politicians, and was dispers'd into all Quarters of the Nation with great Industry and Expence.----In this Paper all the great Men who had done eminent Services to their Country, but a few Years before, were draughted out one by one, and baited in their Turns. No Sanctity of Character, or Privilege of Sex exempted Persons.----Several of our Prelates were the standing Marks of publick Raillery._----"
[65] _In his_ Ecclesiastical Policy, _his_ Defence and Continuation _thereof, and his_ Reproof to _Marvel_'s Rehearsal transpos'd.
[66] _In his_ Friendly Debates.
[67] _In his six Volumes of_ Sermons, _and in his_ Books _of the_ Trinity.
[68] _In his_ Discourse of the Knowledge of Christ, _&c. his_ Defences of Dr. _Stillingfleet_'s Unreasonableness of Separation, _and his_ Answer _to the_ Protestant Reconciler.
[69] _In his Translation of_ Dryden_'s_ Absalom _and_ Achitophel _into_ Latin _Verse, whereby he was first flush'd; and in his_ Convocational Controversy, _and in his numerous State Libels_.
[70] _In his_ Sermons, Rights of the Church, _and especially his_ Character of a Low-Church-man, _drawn to abuse Bishop_ Floyd.
[71] _Of this, the Trials of_ Penn _and_ Mead _before_ Howel, _and of_ Baxter _before_ Jefferys, _are Master Pieces; of which last you have an Account in_ Kennet_'s_ Compleat History of _England, Vol. 3d. and of the former in_ the Phoenix, _Vol._ I.
[72] Snape_'s_ Vindication against _Pilloniere_. p. 50.
[73] _Id._ p. 63.
[74] _The Stage condemn'd_, p. 2.
[75] Popery truly stated, _p._ 127, 128.
[76] _Pag._ 75, 76, 77, 79, 81, 112, 113, 120, 122, 124, 125.
[77] _Sermons_, Vol. III. p. 299.
[78] Rule of Faith, _p._ 347, 348.
[79] See _p._ 57.
[80] _Pag._ 59.
[81] _Pag._ 57.
[82] Burnet_'s_ History of his own Times, _p._ 674.
[83] Ib. _p._ 792.
[84] Ibid. _p._ 740.
[85] Ibid. _p._ 683.
[86] _The Protestant Mouse speaks._
[87] _Boyer_'s Life of Queen _Anne_, in the Annual List of the Deaths, _p._ 65.
[88] _A_ Clergyman _preach'd thus to his_ Auditory: _"You have_ Moses _and_ Aaron _before you, and the Organs behind you, so are a happy People; for what greater Comfort would mortal Men have?"_ See _Walker_'s Sufferings, _&c. p._ 178.
[89] _See the Article_ Heylin, in _Wood_'s Athenæ Oxon.
[90] Burnet_'s Hist._ p. 100.
[91] _Characteristicks_, Vol. I. p. 259.
[92] Burnet. _ibid._
[93] Page 177.
[94] Burnet _p._ 95.
[95] Kennet_'s Register_, p. 258.
[96] _Ibid._ p. 516.
[97] Burnet_'s Hist._
[98] Kennet_'s Register_, p. 111.
[99] Burnet_'s History_, p. 107.
[100] _See the Bp. of_ Bangor_'s Preface to the_ Answer _to the_ Representation _of the Lower House of Convocation_.
[101] Ward_'s Life of Dr._ Henry More, _p._ 120.
[102] Ibid. _p._ 122.
[103] _See the several Lives of him._
[104] _Life lately printed_, 1726. p. 99.
[105] Burnet_'s Hist._ p. 95.
[106] Temple_'s Works_, Vol. II. p. 40.
[107] _Collection of authentick Records_, Vol. II. p. 1099.
[108] _Second Letter to the Bishop of_ London, _p._ 3, 4.
[109] _History_, p. 260.
[110] _Mat._ xxvi. 67, 68.
[111] Elwood_'s History of his own Life_, &c. _p._ 318.
[112] _Remarks on some late Sermons_, &c. _p._ 34.
[113] _Pag._ 52.
[114] _Answer to_ State of the Protestants in _Ireland_, &c. _p._ 108.
[115] _Pag._ 120, 121.
[116] _Preface_, p. 14.
[117] _Pag._ 11, 24.
[118] _Pag._ 1.
[119] _Pag._ 4, 11, 12, 13, 19.
[120] Appendix to Parliamentary Original, &c. _p._ 14.
[121] Some Remarks on the Temper of some late Writers, &c. _p._ 33.
[122] Preface to Animad. _p._ 12, 13.
[123] Animad. _p._ 114.
[124] Ibid. _p._ 332.
[125] Ibid. _p._ 348.
[126] Tritheism charged, _p._ 2, 3.
[127] Ib. _p._ 108.
[128] Ibid. _p._ 170.
[129] Ibid. _p._ 281.
[130] Judg. 18.24.
[131] Ib. _p._ 285.
[132] Ibid. _p._ 299.
[133] _Fuller_'s Church History, Cent. 17. B. 11. Sect. 89, Parag. 10.
[134] _Rushworth_, Part II. Vol. I. _p._ 471.
[135] _Prap. Evang._ l. 4. p. 209-234.
[136] Fontenelle, Historie des Oracles. I. Dissert. c. vii.
[137] Euseb. Id. l. 4.
[138] _Baltus_, Suite de la Reponse a l'His. des Oracles, _p._ 283.
[139] _Ibid._
[140] _Bp._ Hoadley_'s Answer to_ the Representation, _&c. Pref._ p. 12.
[141] _Page_ 91.
[142] _Page_ 2.
[143] _Page_ 1.
[144] _Page_ 4, 5.
[145] _Mr._ Collier.
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