Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . (which I have a greatvalue for) wants a little filing; and I doubt not but a fewsuch strokes as this will do it and him good. - Swift, who 1 Pag-e 487 ed. 1699 ; p. 465, Wagner. - January, 1695 (Monks Life of Bentley, i. 71). EXGLTSH SCHOLARSHIP, 1570-1743. 85 was living at ^loor Park under the patronage of Sir ^^illiamTemple, joined in the fray by attacking Bentley in the courseof his Tale of a Tub, i most
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . (which I have a greatvalue for) wants a little filing; and I doubt not but a fewsuch strokes as this will do it and him good. - Swift, who 1 Pag-e 487 ed. 1699 ; p. 465, Wagner. - January, 1695 (Monks Life of Bentley, i. 71). EXGLTSH SCHOLARSHIP, 1570-1743. 85 was living at ^loor Park under the patronage of Sir ^^illiamTemple, joined in the fray by attacking Bentley in the courseof his Tale of a Tub, i most of which was composed in also in his Battle of the Books, - with its Episode ofBentley and Wotton, written in the following year. Templehimself, who died early in 1698, lived long enough to praisethe pleasant turns ofwit, and the easinessof style, which markedBoyles reply to whathe had the assurance todescribe as such foul-m o u t h e d , one of Bentleyscontemporaries at Cam-bridge and a relation ofthe Boyles, pronouncedhis opinion on the meritsof the combatants in thecouplet— So diamonds take a lustrefrom their to a Bentley tis weowe a Boyle. •*. rHONTIblIECE TO SWIFTS BATTLE OFTHE BOOKS. Evelyn alone stood upfor his friend, w^aitingtill he had heard bothsides. ^ Bentley replied bypublishing, early in 1699,an enlarored Dissertation,which had justly been regarded as marking an epoch notonly in the life of the author but also in the history ofliterature. His victory was really complete, but its effect wasnot immediately felt in all its fulness. Not one, however, ofthe Boylean confederacy ever again appeared before the world asa critic,^ though many years had to elapse before Tyrwhitt could 1 Pages 51, , 67,ed. 1869. ^ p^ges 101, , 105-9. » Garth? Dispensary(1699). * April 21, 1698; Bentleys •Correspondence, p. 167, ed. 1812. 5 Monks Life, L 136. BentleysRejoinder. 8t) THE AGE OF WALPOLE. CriticalScholar-ship. BentleyMaster ofTrinity.
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