[Footnote 455: "Essay on Satire," XIII. 80.]
[Footnote 456: Preface to the Fables, VI. 238.]
[Footnote 461: The Earl of Shaftesbury: "Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit-- Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storm; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy, In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state."]
[Footnote 466: "Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit: Theirs was the giant race before the flood, And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire stood. Like Janus, he the stubborn soil manured, With rules of husbandry the rankness cured; Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude, And boisterous English wit with art endured.... But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength, Our builders were with want of genius curst; The second temple was not like the first." --"Epistle 12 to Congreve," XI. 59.]
[Footnote 467: "Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and skulk'd against the laws.... Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed!" --"Absalom and Achitophel," Part I.]
[Footnote 468: "Why then should I, encouraging the bad, Turn rebel, and run popularly mad?" --Ibid.]
[Footnote 469: "Though Huguenots contemn our ordination. Succession, ministerial vocation," etc. ("The Hind and the Panther," Part. II. 10. 166). Such are the harsh words we often find in his books.]