Notwithstanding this, the ship which carried the Prince was captured by an armed merchantman, and carried to London, where Henry IV., the usurping Bolingbroke, utterly regardless of treaties, committed him and his attendants to the Tower.

Lord Bolingbroke wrote to him to beg him "to put on his philosophical spectacles," and wrote with but small success.

Dilettantism gave way to learning and speculation; in the place of Bolingbroke came Adam Smith; in the place of Addison, Johnson.

Custom had established yearly festivals for them in the classic regions of St. Giles's, which were frequented by the wits of the daySwift, Gay, Bolingbroke, Steele, &c. From these high followers of the muses, yearly contingents of ballads were expected.

From the other big houses of that prosperous neighborhood were coming, also in working clothes, the fathers, and occasionally the sons, of families he was accustomed to regard as "all rightfor Saint X." At the corner of Cherry Lane, old Bolingbroke, many times a millionaire thanks to a thriving woolen factory, came up behind him and cried out, "Well, young man!

"As soon as I read your father's will, I made one myself," he continued as they hurried along at Bolingbroke's always furious speed.

And Bolingbroke's hearty admiration, undeserved though Arthur felt it to be, put what he thought was nerve into him and stimulated what he then regarded as pride.

" Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 153.

"Bolingbroke, on Hist., Let.

"Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 309.

"Bolingbroke, on History, p. 168.

" Bolingbroke, on History, p. 85.

"Bolingbroke, on Hist.,

"Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 271.

" Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 320.

"Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 109.

17; Johnson loved the old ones, i. 49; iii. 2. ROME and the Romans, ancient, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; Bolingbroke's references to them, iii. 206, n. 1; cant in their praise, i. 311; iii. 206, n. 1; Carthaginian, no feeling for a, iv.

SCHOOLS, authority lessened, iii. 262; Bolingbroke, described by, v. 85, n. 3 (See under SCHOOLMASTERS); boys' restless desire of novelty, iii. 385, n. 1; flogging and learning, less of, ii. 407; happiness of schoolboys, i. 451; north of England schools cheap and good, ii. 380; poor, for the, ii. 188; iii. 352, n. 1; public, best for a boy of parts, iii. 12; bad for the timid, iv.

174, n. 4; Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 268, n. 3; Burke, speaks with malignity of, iv.

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The widening stain, by W. Bolingbroke Johnson, pseud.

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I once desired Lord Bolingbroke to observe that the clerks used an ivory knife, with a blunt edge, to divide paper, which cut it even, only requiring a strong hand; whereas a sharp penknife would go out of the crease, and disfigure the paper.

In receipt of a pension from the queen, and received as a visitor at La Source, near Orleans, by Lord Bolingbroke in his exile, every day becoming more brilliant and more courted, he was augmenting his fortune by profitable speculations, and appeared on the point of finding himself well off, when an incident, which betrayed the remnant still remaining of barbarous manners, occurred to envenom for a long while the poet's existence.

Lord Bolingbroke, having returned to England and been restored to favor, did potent service to his old friend, who lived in the midst of that literary society in which Pope and Swift held sway, without, however, relaxing his reserve with its impress of melancholy.