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He wrote Latin verses from time to time, and published a set in his old age, which he called 'Senilia; in which he shews so little learning or taste in writing, as to make Carteret a dactyl . In matters of genealogy it is necessary to give the bare names as they are; but in poetry, and in prose of any elegance in the writing, they require to have inflection given to them.
Stephanorum Historia, vitas ipsorum ac libros complectens. London, 1709. Senilia was published in 1742. The line to which Johnson refers is, 'Mel, nervos, fulgur, Carteret, unus, habes, p. 101. In another line, the poet celebrates Colley Cibber's Muse the Musa Cibberi: 'Multa Cibberum levat aura. p. 50. See Macaulay's Essays, ed. 1843, i. 367.
The way in which Godwin in his later novels came down from the mountain-tops of theory and paradox just as he came down from those of Political Justice itself is interesting and amusing, but not for us. As novels they are certainly inferior. The best parts of St. Leon and Fleetwood are perhaps better than anything in Caleb: Mandeville and Deloraine are senilia.
The pages have no general title; the author has written on their wrapper: "Senilia An Old Man's Jottings," but we have preferred the words carelessly dropped by the author in the end of his letter to us, quoted above, "Poems in Prose" and we print the pages under that general title.
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