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JOHN DENNIS. 1657-1734.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

_The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. li. Page 324._

They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.[282-1]

FOOTNOTES:

[282-1] Our author, for the advantage of this play ("Appius and Virginia"), had invented a new species of thunder, which was approved of by the actors, and is the very sort that at present is used in the theatre. The tragedy however was coldly received, notwithstanding such assistance, and was acted but a short time. Some nights after, Mr. Dennis, being in the pit at the representation of "Macbeth," heard his own thunder made use of; upon which he rose in a violent passion, and exclaimed, with an oath, that it was his thunder. "See," said he, "how the rascals use me! They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder!"--_Biographia Britannica, vol. v. p. 103._

THOMAS SOUTHERNE. 1660-1746.

Pity 's akin to love.[282-2]

_Oroonoka. Act ii. Sc. 1._

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.[282-3]

_Sir Anthony Love. Act ii. Sc. 1._

FOOTNOTES:

[282-2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 198.

[282-3] I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better.--WYCHERLEY: _The Plaindealer, act i. sc. 1._

A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man 's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

BURNS: _For a' that and a' that._

MATHEW HENRY.[282-4] 1662-1714.

The better day, the worse deed.[282-5]

_Commentaries. Genesis iii._

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.[282-6]

_Commentaries. Genesis iii._

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.[283-1]

_Commentaries. Job iii._

To their own second thoughts.[283-2]

_Commentaries. Job vi._

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

_Commentaries. Psalm xxxvi._

Our creature comforts.

_Commentaries. Psalm xxxvii._

None so deaf as those that will not hear.[283-3]

_Commentaries. Psalm lviii._

They that die by famine die by inches.

_Commentaries. Psalm lix._

To fish in troubled waters.

_Commentaries. Psalm lx._

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.[283-4]

_Commentaries. Psalm civ._

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

_Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii._

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

_Commentaries. Isaiah xxx._

Blushing is the colour of virtue.[283-5]

_Commentaries. Jeremiah iii._

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.[283-6]

_Commentaries. Jeremiah vii._

None so blind as those that will not see.[283-7]

_Commentaries. Jeremiah xx._

Not lost, but gone before.[283-8]

_Commentaries. Matthew ii._

Those that are above business.

_Commentaries. Matthew xx._

Better late than never.[284-1]

_Commentaries. Matthew xxi._

Saying and doing are two things.

_Commentaries. Matthew xxi._

Judas had given them the slip.

_Commentaries. Matthew xxii._

After a storm comes a calm.

_Commentaries. Acts ix._

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

_Commentaries. Acts x._

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

_Commentaries. Timothy i._

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.[284-2]

_Commentaries. Timothy iii._

FOOTNOTES:

[282-4] Mathew Henry says of his father, Rev. Philip Henry (1631-1691): "He would say sometimes, when he was in the midst of the comforts of this life, 'All this, and heaven too!'"--_Life of Rev. Philip Henry, p. 70._ (London, 1830.)

[282-5] See Middleton, page 172.

[282-6] See Venning, page 262.

[283-1] Nature says best; and she says, Roar!--EDGEWORTH: _Ormond, chap. v._ (King Corny in a paroxysm of gout.)

[283-2] I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law.--FISHER AMES: _On Biennial Elections, 1788._

[283-3] See Heywood, page 19.

[283-4] Bread is the staff of life.--SWIFT: _Tale of a Tub._

Corne, which is the staffe of life.--WINSLOW: _Good Newes from New England, p. 47._ (London, 1624.)

The stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread.--_Isaiah iii. 1._

[283-5] Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Diogenes, vi._

[283-6] See Heywood, page 12.

[283-7] There is none so blind as they that won't see.--SWIFT: _Polite Conversation, dialogue iii._

[283-8] Literally from Seneca, _Epistola lxiii. 16._

Not dead, but gone before.--ROGERS: _Human Life._

[284-1] See Heywood, page 13.

[284-2] See Appendix, page 859.

RICHARD BENTLEY. 1662-1742.

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

_Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90._

"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.[284-3]

_Declaration of Rights._

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.[284-4]

_Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147_ (1692).

FOOTNOTES:

[284-3] See Dryden, page 276.

[284-4] That fortuitous concourse of atoms.--_Review of Sir Robert Peel's Address. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270_ (1835).

In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of atoms,--a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time many years afterwards by Lord John Russell.--_Croker Papers, vol. ii. p. 54._

HENRY CAREY. 1663-1743.

God save our gracious king! Long live our noble king! God save the king!

_God save the King._

Aldeborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?

_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1._

His cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation.

_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1._

Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, In sweet vociferation out-vociferize Even sound itself.

_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1._

To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.

_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3._

Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"

_Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4._

Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free.

_The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2._

What a monstrous tail our cat has got!

_The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1._

Of all the girls that are so smart, There 's none like pretty Sally.[285-1]

_Sally in our Alley._

Of all the days that 's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday.

_Sally in our Alley._

FOOTNOTES:

[285-1] Of all the girls that e'er was seen, There 's none so fine as Nelly.

SWIFT: _Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet._

DANIEL DEFOE. 1663-1731.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there;[286-1] And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

_The True-Born Englishman. Part i . Line 1._

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

_The True-Born Englishman.