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cessive alterations*, to learn his turns and arts in versification, and to consider the reasons why such and such an alteration † was made.]

My works are now all well laid out. The first division of them contains all I wrote under sixteen, which may be called my Juvenilia; the second my translations from different authors, under the same period; the third my own works since; and the

Dr. Johnson has done this in his late Life of Pope. M.

† I read only the first page, in which

Η μυρί' Αχαιοις αλγε έθηκε,

Πολλους δ' ίφθιμος ψυχας αιδι προϊάψεν
Ηρωων—

was thus translated:

That strewed with warriors dead the Phrygian

plain,

And peopled the dark shades with heroes slain.

It now stands thus:

That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign
The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain-

and was evidently altered to preserve the sense of the word.

fourth my latter translations* and imitations.-The same.

I was forced to print in little, by other printers beginning to do so from my folios. I will have no more to do with printing myself; and if the world should have a mind to a good edition of all my works, it must be from somebody that may take care of it after my death.-The same.

It is most certain that nobody ever loved money so little as my brother.-Mrs. Racket (of Mr. Pope.)

The accident of the cow was when my brother was about three years old. He was then filling a little cart with stones. The cow struck at him, carried off his hat and feather with her horn, and flung him down on the heap of stones he had been playing with. In the fall he cut himself against one of them in his neck, near the throat.-The same.

The other accident, of his being so like to be killed, when he was overturned in

* Exclusive of the Iliad and Odyssey.

the coach and six, was in the water just before you come to Twickenham.-The same. [Rather somewhere in the Hounslow-heath way; for he was coming home from Doily.] -Mrs. B. (Blount.)

I believe nobody ever studied so hard as my brother did in his youth. He did nothing but write and read.-Mrs. Racket.

My brother does not seem to know what fear is. When some of the people that he had put into the Dunciad were so enraged against him, and threatened him so highly, he loved to walk alone, and particularly often to Mr. Fortescue's at Richmond. Only he would take Bounce* with him; and for some time carried pistols in his pocket. He used then to say to us when we talked to him about it, that "with pistols the least man in England was above a match for the largest."-Mrs. Racket. [After. the first edition of the Dunciad, and while Mr. Pope was preparing another yet more irritating, I took the opportunity one morning when I had been reading some things

A great faithful Danish dog of Mr. Pope's.

to him out of Bayle's Dictionary in his study, to turn to the article Bruschius, a poet of Bohemia, who, when he was going, to publish a Satire against some of the blockheads of that country, was way-laid in a wood, and murdered by them. Something. of the same nature had been then lately hinted at as to Ham walk. I read the article to Mr. Pope, and said something that I thought my friendship obliged me to say about his venturing alone to Richmond. He said, that "the people I mentioned were low and vile enough perhaps to be capable of such designs, but that he should not go a step out of his way for them; for let the very worst that I could imagine happen, he thought it better to die, than to live in fear of such rascals."]

When my brother's faithful dog and companion in those walks died, he had some thoughts of burying him in his garden, and putting a piece of marble over his grave with this epitaph

O RARE BOUNCE!

and he would have done it, I believe, had

he not apprehended that some people might take it to have been meant as a ridicule upon Ben Jonson.-Mrs. Racket.

Mr. Pope was taught his accidence, and the Greek elements* by a priest in the family: was sent to school at Twyford when he was about eight; stayed there only one year, and at other little schools till twelve. "When I came from the last of them, all the acquisition I had made was to be able to construe a little of Tully's Offices."-Mr. Pope.

My next period was in Windsor Forest,

where I sat down with an earnest desire of reading, and applied as constantly as possibly I could to it for some years. I was

between twelve and thirteen when I first went thither, and continued in this close pursuit of pleasure and languages till nineteen or twenty.-The same. Considering how

very little I had when I came from school, I think I may be said to have taught myself Latin, as well as French or Greek, and in all three my chief way of

The alphabet only, as he explained it afterwards.

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