ER.)

[147] The "Quarterly Review," vol. vii. p. 383.--So masterly a piece
of criticism has rarely surprised the public in the leaves of
a periodical publication. It comes, indeed, with the feelings
of another age, and the reminiscences of the old and vigorous
school. I cannot implicitly adopt all the sentiments of the
critic, but it exhibits a highly-finished portrait, enamelled
by the love of the artist.--This article was written by the
late Dr. Whitaker, the historian of Craven, &c.

[148] When Warburton, sore at having been refused academical
honours at Oxford, which were offered to Pope, then his
fellow-traveller, and who, in consequence of this refusal,
did himself not accept them--in his controversy with Lowth
(then the Oxford Professor), gave way to his angry spirit,
and struck at the University itself, for its political
jesuitism, being a place where men "were taught to distinguish
between _de facto_ and _de jure_," caustic was the retort.
Lowth, by singular felicity of application, touched on
Warburton's original designation, in a character he hit on in
Clarendon. After remonstrating with spirit and dignity on
this petulant attack, which was not merely personal, Lowth
continues:--"Had I not your lordship's example to justify me,
I should think it a piece of extreme impertinence to inquire
where YOU were bred; though one might justly plead, in
excuse for it, a natural curiosity to know _where_ and _how_
such a phenomenon was produced. It is commonly said that your
lordship's education was of that particular kind, concerning
which it is a remark of that great judge of men and manners,
Lord Clarendon (on whom you have, therefore, with a wonderful
happiness of allusion, justness of application, and elegance
of expression, conferred 'the unrivalled title of the
Chancellor of Human Nature'), that it peculiarly disposes
men to be proud, insolent, and pragmatical." Lowth, in a
note, inserts Clarendon's character of Colonel Harrison: "He
had been bred up in the place of a clerk, under a lawyer of
good account in those parts; which kind of education
introduces men into the language and practice of business;
and if it be not resisted by the