crificed, not the most solemn of his
opinions, nor the most pathetic memorial from his personal experiences,
in return for a sufficient consideration, which consideration meant
always with him poetic effect. Simply and constitutionally, he was
incapable of a sincere thought, or a sincere emotion. Nothing that ever
he uttered, were it even a prayer to God, but he had a fancy for reading
it backwards. And he was evermore false, not as loving or preferring
falsehood, but as one who could not in his heart perceive much real
difference between what people affected to call falsehood, and what they
affected to call truth."]

[Footnote 13: Macaulay's Essays, 1 Vol. ed. p. 719.]

[Footnote 14: Athenaeum, July 8, 1854, Sept. 1, Sept. 8, and Sept. 15,
1860.]

[Footnote 15: Mrs. Thomas to Cromwell, June 27, 1727.]

[Footnote 16: "Lives of the Poets," edited by Cunningham, Vol. III. p.
62.]

[Footnote 17: "The Curlliad," p. 22.]

[Footnote 18: Vol. I. p. xxxviii. Where no other work is mentioned, the
references throughout this Introduction are to the present edition of
Pope's Correspondence.]

[Footnote 19: Mr. Croker and myself have been indebted to the kindness
of the present Marquess of Bath for the use of the Oxford papers
preserved at Longleat. They are most important for the light they throw
upon the character and proceedings of Pope.]

[Footnote 20: Lord Oxford to Pope, Oct. 9, 1729.]

[Footnote 21: Pope to Lord Oxford, Oct. 16, 1729.]

[Footnote 22: Pope to Swift, Nov. 28, 1729.]

[Footnote 23: "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 62.]

[Footnote 24: Vol. I. p. xxxvii.]

[Footnote 25: The father was probably Lord Digby, and the letters were
those addressed to the Hon. Robert Digby, who died in April, 1726.]

[Footnote 26: Vol. I. pp. xxxvii, xxxviii.]

[Footnote 27: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 423.]

[Footnote 28: Warton's "Essay on Pope," Vol. II. p. 255.]

[Footnote 29: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 424.]

[Footnote 30: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 425.]

[Footnote 31: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 421, 423.]

[Footnote 32: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 441.]

[Footnote 33: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 422.]

[Footnote 34: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 422.]

[Footnote 35: Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 425, 441.]

[Footnote 36: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 442.]

[Footnote 37: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 432.]

[Footnote 38: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 434.]

[Footnote 39: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 443.]

[Footnote 40: Vol. I. Appendix, p. 428.]

[Footnote 41: Vol. I. Appendix,