"
Your simile may better shine
In verse, but there is truth in mine.
For no imaginable things
Can differ more than gods and kings:
And statesmen, by ten thousand odds,
Are angels just as kings are gods.
[Footnote 1: Earl of Halifax; see Johnson's "Life of
Montague."--_W. E. B._]
[Footnote 2: The whole of this paragraph is unjust both to Halifax and
Congreve; for immediately after the production of Congreve's first play,
"The Old Bachelor," Halifax gave him a place in the Pipe Office, and
another in the Customs, of L600 a year. Ultimately he had at least four
sinecure appointments which together afforded him some L1,200 a year. See
Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," edit. Cunningham.--_W. E. B._]
[Footnote 3: William, Duke of Cumberland, son to George II, "The
Butcher."]
[Footnote 4: See _ante_, p. 215, note.--_W. E. B._]
[Footnote 5: See Johnson's "Life of Addison."--_W. E. B._]
[Footnote 6: See "Prologue to the Satires," 390 to the end.--_W. E. B._]
[Footnote 7: "So when an angel by divine command," etc.
ADDISON'S _Campaign_.]
TO DR. DELANY
ON THE LIBELS WRITTEN AGAINST HIM. 1729
--Tanti tibi non sit opaci
Omnis arena Tagi quodque in mare volvitur aurum.
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