Jones and Porson were alone equally ready and correct in accentuating Greek words without the aid of books. This remark gave to me a high opinion of Sir Wm. Jones's profound and general knowledge of the Greek tongue. About the same time he observed to me that

In the Preface to the second edition of R. Dawesii Miscellanea Critica, Lond. 1827. Mr. Kidd writes p. ii. :-"Eodem anno (1736.) Specimen Libri primi Paradisi Amissi Græca versione donati edidit, quod in hoc volumen, tanquam Appendicem quandam, contuli. Exemplar hujus opusculi mihi concessum fuit e locupletissima bibliotheca viri reverendi et eruditissimi, Martini Josephi Routh, S. T. P. et Collegii S. Magdalenæ apud Oxonienses Præsidis, rogatu viri summi et singularis, Samuelis Parrii, qui quan'quam matura et ætate et gloria decessit, tamen a nobis, velut ante diem raptus, lugetur.'

P. 67. "Horat. A. P. 127.

servetur ad imum

Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.

Aut conjecit Hurd. ad 1. p. 104., probante viro eruditissimo, S. Parrio ad Horat. Londini edit. 1793. p. 77. et alibi; vulgatam defendit homo in omni judicio elegantissimus, T. Twining, ad Aristot. Poet. 335-8. Aristot. Poet. s. 28. Proclus ap. Tyrwhitt. ad l. Cf. Aelian. ap. R. P. in Pr. ad Hec. xxii-iii. Virg. G. 1, 419. Den

to Mr. J. Tweddell, Mr. Mackintosh, and Mr. Wakefield, naturally introduce some account of Parr's connection with these celebrated men." "The Rev. Gilbert Wakefield was another of Parr's friends, who became a victim to his own indiscretion, and the proscription of the Government, during the French war. He had introduced himself early in life to Parr's acquaintance as a young scholar seeking preferment, and talks in that Letter of Mr. Bennet, (late Bp. of Cloyne,) as their common friend. The correspondence with Mr. Beloe, long afterwards, unfolds Parr's kindness to him in influencing the Editor of the British Critic to

Sir. Wm. Jones, Dr. Johnson, and Bishops Warburton and Lowth were all free from literary envy. Now that I have got into the narrative mood, I must needs relate another story, communicated to me by Dr. Parr, and suggested to my recollection by the mention of Porson.

set, erant quæ rara modo, et, quæ densa, relaxat. Aut, Edv. King. Cic. de Off 1, 40, 6. Talis est igitur ordo actionum adhibendus, ut, quemadmodum in oratione constanti, sic in vita omnia sint apta inter se et convenientia. Lege constantia, i. e. congruentia, '3, 8, 2. Recta enim et convenientia, et constantia natura, deside'rat, aspernaturque contraria.' Toup."

On the Dawesian canon p. 393. "Severiores Musas coluisse video poetas Atticos quam quæ in vocis hyperdisyllabæ ultimam correptam accentum cadere paterentur," M. Kidd has a long note, in the course of which he writes:- Atqui crediderim verba auríκα ‘μáλa, et alias, si quæ sint, istiusmodi formulas excipi oportere ; 'qua de re, cum ea Dawesium fefellisse videatur, monitos lectores velim.' S. Parr. in Pr. ad Bellenden. (Prooem. p. ii.) quem confer in Censura Horat. Comb., et ap. E. Maltby in Obs. ad Morell. xlvi. Mihi innuit vir amicissimus Porsonum uno in loco, (nimirum Plut. 432.) avтikáμaλa tanquam unam vocem exarasse; sed v. 1192. avτíka μáλ' intactum reliquit vir præstantissimus: vide P. P. D. Præfatio ad Aristoph. P. iv, Coll. at Nub. 161. Eccl. 1228. et Addend. ad Plut. p. (112.)" E. H. B.]

admit a favourable criticism of one of Wakefield's works," (his edition of Horace, on which the critique has been reprinted in this volume of the Parriana,) “into his Review, and the Letter of Mr. Wakefield in the Appendix, and those of Mr. Beloe, which will be published hereafter, will luminously display the feeling of the parties towards each other. The Letters from DorchesterGaol refer to a part of Mr. Wakefield's life, which can only be contemplated with sorrow; and that of Dr. Parr, on the death of Mr. Wakefield," (reprinted in this volume,) "will say all the

Archdeacon Travis meant to revise certain obsolete Acts of Parliament against the Roman Catholics, and accordingly proceeded against some of them for noncompliance with the law. The late Lord Kenyon was urgent with the Archdeacon to drop the prosecution;

rest, which his friends can desire. Had Parr even only expressed the sentiment in the Remarks, it would have been enough to stamp his reputation,- a man, whose virtue I so much love, and whose talents and learning I so highly admire.'”

The following notices of Gilbert Wakefield occur in the Bibliotheca Parriana: 1. In his copy of Wakefield's Lucretius Dr. Parr (p. 185,) had written the words, "The gift of the very learned editor, S. P." 2. In the 4th Part of his copy of the Silva Critica, which is now in my possession, Dr. Parr (p. 330,) has written, "Gift of the pious, learned, and injured author.” 3. Wakefield's Remarks on the Internal Evidences of the Christian Religion, Warrington 1789, Dr. Parr (p. 549,) calls “wise and important." 4. Of Wakefield's unpublished Noctes Carceraria Dr. Parr says (p. 634,) "The last gift of the much beloved and much respected author." 5. Wakefield's Remarks on Horsley's Ordination-Sermon, Dr. Parr (p. 689,) characterises as "pungent."

It may be well to add the notices of Wakefield, which are scattered in the Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature, by T. Green of Ipswich.

P. 59. “Jan. 24, 1798. Finished Warton's Life of Pope, prefixed to his edition of Pope's Works; and compared Wakefield's Preface to his Observations on Pope. These two critics differ essentially in their judgment of Pope. Wakefield ascribes to him, in a transcendent, and, it should seem, an equal degree, all the superior qualifications of a consummate poet, while Warton regards him as deficient in the characteristic one,— imagination. Jan. 26. Looked over Warton's Notes on the two first Volumes of Pope's Works, comparing occasionally Wakefield's Observations. With Wakefield he sometimes exactly coincides, but cautiously

but he refused. On the eve of the trial his Lordship sent for him, and informed him that he knew 39 ways of plaguing an orthodox Clergyman, and assured him that he should revive some obsolete laws against the clerical body, if the Archdeacon persisted in prosecuting the Ro

abstains from anything like allusion to his labours in the same vineyard. Warton has one felicitous expression, with which even the exuberant luxuriance of Mr. Wakefield's style would have been enriched,- Prose fringed with rhyme.'"

P. 63. "Febr. 8. Pursued Wakefield's Observations on Pope. I exactly agree with him in the species of preference, which he gives to Pope's over Boileau's Imitation of Horace, in the account of the Visionary, (Epist. 2, 2, 192. and Sat. 4, 103.) but do not see how he mends the matter in his proposed improvement of verses 74 and 75, in the second Dialogue by way of Epilogue to the Satires. Wakefield possesses exquisite taste, and a most luxuriant fancy, as a critic; and one grieves that he should ever have misapplied his powers to politics and religion. Febr. 11. Read the Dunciad with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations. Wakefield's attempts at humour, under the character of Scriblerus to the Dunciad, are very frigid and uncouth; he seems to have caught the grossness of Pope without his spirit, and occasionally displays the bigot."

P. 68. "March 12. Read Watson's Address and Wakefield's Answer. The Bishop is certainly wrong in supposing that an equal depression of all ranks would be a matter of no concern, as each individual would preserve his relative place in society; since, though the rich would in consequence suffer only a positive privation of superfluities, this privation, with the poor, would extend to the necessaries of life. He is equally wrong in supposing it possible to discharge the national debt by deducting a proportionate quantum of property from each individual, since a vast class of individuals have no property besides their annual, monthly, weekly, or even daily income; but I cannot forgive Wakefield's attempt, in his reply, to depreciate the national character; nor

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man Catholics. But he wisely, though reluctantly, gave up the business.

The name of Lord Kenyon reminds me of another story. Dr. Parr once went into court, when Lord Kenyon was sitting in judgment; some law-Latin was quoted;

his ill-concealed complacency at our subjugation by France. I have no opinion of the man, who has lost the love of his country in more remote regards."

In consulting the Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms of the late R. Porson, Esq. by my friend, Mr. Kidd, great vigilance is necessary, lest something to the purpose of your enquiry should be omitted, because you have to refer to so many different parts of the volume. I find that I have inadvertently omitted to notice what Mr. Kidd says about Wakefield's Diatribe in his Preface p. lxx, and justice requires that it should not be omitted, though it will extend my note:

"EURIPIDIS Hecuba, 1797. This edition, in every respect worthy of the other hope of criticism, did not escape the carping reprehensions of ill-advised and unworthy resentment. A scholar, (Tanta in eo mutandi libido fuit, ut hoc ipsum eum delectaret, mutare, etiamsi causa non esset,) whom R. P. sincerely esteemed for his domestic virtues and independent spirit," (if Porson had said as much in print, perhaps the Diatribe would never have been published, and no unpleasant feeling might have possessed the mind of G. W. about critical matters,) "but to whom he was not ready to impute the gift of divination, felt indignant that his name was not recorded in the Preface and Notes on Hecuba, as it had been once in the Appendix to Toup. This is the fountain, from which all these waters of bitterness flowed. Whatever Mr. W. might think, it was, on R. P.'s part, an earnest of tenderness: Bella geri placuit nullos habitura triumphos ?

Besides,

λοιδορεῖσθαι δ ̓ οὐ πρέπει

*Ανδρας ποιητὰς, ὥσπερ ἀρτοπωλίδας.

Ran. 857.