(Just Publish’d, Price 6d.)The Political Padlock, and the English Key. A Fable. Translated from theItalianof Father M——rS——ini, who is now under Confinement for the same inNaples, by Order of DonCarlos. With Explanatory Notes.I grant allCoursesare in vain,Unless we canget inagain:The only Way that’s left us now,But all the Difficulty’sHow?
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The Political Padlock, and the English Key. A Fable. Translated from theItalianof Father M——rS——ini, who is now under Confinement for the same inNaples, by Order of DonCarlos. With Explanatory Notes.
I grant allCoursesare in vain,Unless we canget inagain:The only Way that’s left us now,But all the Difficulty’sHow?
THEDIFFERENCEBETWEENVERBAL and PRACTICALVIRTUE.
WITHA Prefatory Epistle from Mr.C—b—rto Mr.P.
LONDON:Printed forJ. Roberts, near theOxford-ArmsinWarwick-Lane.Mdccxlii.
Mr.C—b—rto Mr.P.
Have at you again, Sir. I gave you fair Warning that I would have the last Word; and by —— (I will not swear in Print) you shall find me no Lyar. I own, I am greatly elate on the Laurels the Town has bestow’d upon me for my Victory over you in my Prose Combat; and, encouraged by that Triumph, I now resolve to fight you on your own Dunghil of Poetry, and with your own jingling Weapons of Rhyme and Metre. I confess I have had some Help; but what then? since the greatest Princes are rather proud than asham’d of Allies and Auxiliaries when they make War in the Field, why should I decline such Assistance when I make War in the Press? And since you thought most unrighteously and unjustly to fall upon me and crush me, only because you imagin’d your Self strong and Me weak, asFrancefell upon the Queen ofHungary; if I like her (si parva licet componere magnis) by first striking a bold and desperate Stroke myself with a little Success, have encouraged such a Friend to me, asEnglandhas been to her, to espouse my Cause, and turn all the Weight of the War upon you, till you wish you had never begun it; with what reasonable and equitable Pleasure may I not pursue my Blow till I make you repent, by laying you on your Back, the ungrateful Returns you have made me for saving you from Destruction when you laid yourself on your Belly. I am, Sir, not your humble, but your devoted Servant; for I will follow you as long as I live; and asTerencesays in theEunuch,Ego pol te pro istis dictis & factis, scelus, ulciscar, ut ne impune in nos illus eris.
THEDIFFERENCEBETWEENVerbal and Practical VIRTUEEXEMPLIFY’D,In some Eminent Instances both Ancient and Modern.
FINIS.
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Publications in Print1948-194915. John Oldmixon,Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley(1712), and Arthur Mainwaring,The British Academy(1712).16. Henry Nevil Payne,The Fatal Jealousie(1673).17. Nicholas Rowe,Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear(1709).18. Anonymous, “Of Genius,” inThe Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface toThe Creation(1720).1949-195019. Susanna Centlivre,The Busie Body(1709).20. Lewis Theobald,Preface to the Works of Shakespeare(1734).22. Samuel Johnson,The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749), and twoRamblerpapers (1750).23. John Dryden,His Majesties Declaration Defended(1681).1950-195126. Charles Macklin,The Man of the World(1792).1951-195231. Thomas Gray,An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard(1751), andThe Eton College Manuscript.1952-195341. Bernard Mandeville,A Letter to Dion(1732).1958-195977-78. David Hartley,Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas(1746).1959-196079. William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke,Poems(1660).81. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters:The Graces(1774), andThe Fine Gentleman’s Etiquette(1776).1960-196185-86.Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals.1961-196293. John Norris,Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call’d, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding(1690).94. An. Collins,Divine Songs and Meditacions(1653).96.Ballads and Songs Loyal to the Hanoverian Succession(1703-1761).1962-196397. Myles Davies, [Selections from]Athenae Britannicae(1716-1719).98.Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert’s Temple(1697).99. Thomas Augustine Arne,Artaxerxes(1761).100. Simon Patrick,A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude-Men(1662).101-102. Richard Hurd,Letters on Chivalry and Romance(1762).1963-1964103. Samuel Richardson,Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript.104. Thomas D’Urfey,Wonders in the Sun; or, The Kingdom of the Birds(1706).105. Bernard Mandeville,An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn(1725).106. Daniel Defoe,A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees(1709).107-108. John Oldmixon,An Essay on Criticism(1728).1964-1965109. Sir William Temple,An Essay Upon the Original and Nature of Government(1680).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(1740).1965-1966115. Daniel Defoe and others,Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal.116. Charles Macklin,The Covent Garden Theatre(1752).117. Sir Roger 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).
Publications in Print
1948-1949
15. John Oldmixon,Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley(1712), and Arthur Mainwaring,The British Academy(1712).
16. Henry Nevil Payne,The Fatal Jealousie(1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe,Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear(1709).
18. Anonymous, “Of Genius,” inThe Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface toThe Creation(1720).
1949-1950
19. Susanna Centlivre,The Busie Body(1709).
20. Lewis Theobald,Preface to the Works of Shakespeare(1734).
22. Samuel Johnson,The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749), and twoRamblerpapers (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), andThe Eton College Manuscript.
1952-1953
41. Bernard Mandeville,A Letter to Dion(1732).
1958-1959
77-78. David Hartley,Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas(1746).
1959-1960
79. William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke,Poems(1660).
81. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters:The Graces(1774), andThe Fine Gentleman’s Etiquette(1776).
1960-1961
85-86.Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals.
1961-1962
93. John Norris,Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call’d, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding(1690).
94. An. Collins,Divine Songs and Meditacions(1653).
96.Ballads and Songs Loyal to the Hanoverian Succession(1703-1761).
1962-1963
97. Myles Davies, [Selections from]Athenae Britannicae(1716-1719).
98.Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert’s Temple(1697).
99. Thomas Augustine Arne,Artaxerxes(1761).
100. Simon Patrick,A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude-Men(1662).
101-102. Richard Hurd,Letters on Chivalry and Romance(1762).
1963-1964
103. Samuel Richardson,Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript.
104. Thomas D’Urfey,Wonders in the Sun; or, The Kingdom of the Birds(1706).
105. Bernard Mandeville,An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn(1725).
106. Daniel Defoe,A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees(1709).
107-108. John Oldmixon,An Essay on Criticism(1728).
1964-1965
109. Sir William Temple,An Essay Upon the Original and Nature of Government(1680).
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(1740).
1965-1966
115. Daniel Defoe and others,Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal.
116. Charles Macklin,The Covent Garden Theatre(1752).
117. Sir Roger 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).
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PUBLICATIONS FOR 1966-1967
Henry Headley,Poems(1786). Introduction by Patricia Meyer Spacks.James Macpherson,Fragments of Ancient Poetry(1760). Introduction by John J. Dunn.Edmond Malone,Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley(1782). Introduction by James M. Kuist.Anonymous,The Female Wits(1704). Introduction by Lucyle Hook.Anonymous,Scribleriad(1742).Lord Hervey,The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue(1742). Introduction by A. J. Sambrook.Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by Monsieur Boileau: Made English by N. O.(1682). Introduction by Richard Morton.
Henry Headley,Poems(1786). Introduction by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
James Macpherson,Fragments of Ancient Poetry(1760). Introduction by John J. Dunn.
Edmond Malone,Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley(1782). Introduction by James M. Kuist.
Anonymous,The Female Wits(1704). Introduction by Lucyle Hook.
Anonymous,Scribleriad(1742).Lord Hervey,The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue(1742). Introduction by A. J. Sambrook.
Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by Monsieur Boileau: Made English by N. O.(1682). Introduction by Richard Morton.
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Footnotes:
[a]Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, &c. Epod. 2. Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebirur usque invidia.Sat. 1. Lib. 2.
[b]Nunc quia Mæcenas tibi sum convictor.Sat. 6. Lib. 1.
——Tu pulses omne quod obstatAd Mæcenatem memori si mente recurras.Hoc juvat, & melli est; ne mentiar.Sat. 6. Lib. 2.
[c]All his Works are full of Examples of Flattery toAugustus.
[d]Epod. 4.Mænaswas a Freedman ofPompeythe younger; and he deserted from him toAugustus, then back fromAugustustoPompey, and then fromPompeytoAugustusagain. This is in all the Histories.Appian. Dion.
[e]Et Appiam mannis terit.Epod. 4.
[f]
O sæpe mecum tempus in ultimumDeducte, Bruto militiæ Duce.——Tecum Philippos & celerem fugamSensi, relictâ non bene parmulâCum fracta virtus, & minacesTurpe solum tetigere mento.Hor.Ode. 7. B. 2.
[g]In his Seneca reus factus est multorum scelerum, sed præsertim quod cum Agrippinâ rem haberet, nec enim in hâc re solum, sed in plerisque aliis contra facere visus est quam Philosophabatur. Quum enim Tyrannidem improbaret, Tyranni præceptor erat: quumque insultaret iis qui cum principibus versarentur, ipse à Palatio non discedebat. Assentatores detestabatur, quum ipse Reginas coleret & libertos, ac Laudationes quorundam componeret. Reprehendebat divites is, cujus facultates erant ter millies sestertium: quique luxum aliorum damnabat quingentes tripodas habuit de ligno cedrino, pedibus eburneis, similes & pares inter se, in quibus cœnabat. Ex quibus omnibus ea quæ sunt his consentanea, quæque ipse libidinose fecit, facile intelligi possunt. Nuptias enim cum nobilissimâ atque illustrissimâ fœminâ contraxit. Delectabatur exoletis, idque Neronem facere docuerat etsi antea tanta fuerat in morum severitate ut ab eo peteret, ne se oscularetur, neve una secum cœnandi causa discumberet.
Vid.Dion. Excerpta per Xiphilinum, Lib. 61.
[h]Collegæ tamen, multos Nobilium, atque inter eos Crispum etiam Sallustium, eum, qui historiam conscripsit, Senatu ejicienti non repugnavit.Dion.Lib. 40.
[i]Ab his Sallustius (qui ut Senatoriam dignitatem recupararet tum Prætor factus erat) propemodum occisus.Dion.Lib. 42.
[k]Numidas quoque in suam potestarem Cæsar accepit, iisque Sallustium præfecit. Sallustius & pecuniæ captæ & compilatæ provinciæ accusatus, summam infamiam reportavit, quod quum ejusmodi libros composuisset, in quibus multis acerbisque verbis eos, qui ex provinciis quæstum facerent, notasset, nequaquam suis scriptis in agendo sterisset. Itaque etsi à Cæsare absolutus fuit, tamen suis ipsius verbis proprium crimen abunde quasi in tabulâ propositum divulgavit.Dion.L. 43.
[l]See at least a hundred and fifty Places in his late Works.
[m]In quo deformitas corporis cum turpitudine cerrabat ingenii; adco ut animus eius dignissimo domicilio inclusus videretur.Vel. Pat.L. 2. B. 69.
[n]See the Dunciad.