d a severe allusion to the
awkward figure he makes in these Dedications. "The Colossus
himself creeps between the legs of the late Sir Robert Sutton;
in what posture, or for what purpose, need not be explained."

CHURCHILL has not passed by unnoticed Warburton's humility,
even to weakness, combined with pride which could rise to
haughtiness.

"He was so proud, that should he meet
The twelve apostles in the street,
He'd turn his nose up at them all,
And shove his Saviour from the wall."

Yet this man

----"Fawned through all his life
For patrons first, then for a wife;
Wrote _Dedications_, which must make
The heart of every Christian quake."
_The Duellist._

It is certain that the proud and supercilious Warburton long
crouched and fawned. MALLET, at least, well knew all that
passed between Warburton and Pope. In the "Familiar Epistle"
he asserts that Warburton was introduced to Pope by his
"nauseous flattery." A remarkable instance, besides the
dedications we have noticed, occurred in his correspondence
with Sir Thomas Hanmer. He did not venture to attack "The
Oxford Editor," as he sarcastically distinguishes him, without
first demanding back his letters, which were immediately
returned, from Sir Thomas's high sense of honour. Warburton
might otherwise have been shown strangely to contradict
himself, for in these letters he had been most lavish of his
flatteries and encomiums on the man whom he covered with
ridicule in the preface to his Shakspeare. See "An Answer to
certain Passages in Mr. W.'s Preface to Shakspeare," 1748.

His dedication to the plain unlettered Ralph Allen of Bath,
his greatest of patrons, of his "Commentary on Pope's Essay on
Man," is written in the same spirit as those to Sir Robert
Sutton; but the former unlucky gentleman was more publicly
exposed by it. The subject of this dedication turns on "the
growth and progress of _Fate_, divided into four principal
branches!" There is an episode about _Free-will_ and _Nature_
and _Grace_, and "a _contrivance_ of Leibnitz about
_Fatalism_." Ralph Allen was a good Quaker-like man, but he