SCOTT, of Amwell, the Quaker and poet, offended at being compared to
Capt. Macheath by the affected witticism of a Reviewer, 143
his extraordinary "Letter to the Critical Reviewers," in which he
enumerates his own poetical beauties, _ib._
SELDEN compelled to recant his opinions, and not suffered to reply
to his calumniators, 198
refuses James I. to publish his defence of the "Sovereignty of the
Seas" till Grotius provoked his reply, _ib._
opinions on bishops, _n._ 502
SETTLE, Elkanah, the ludicrous close of a scribbler's life, 146
the hero of Pope's earliest satire, 333
manages Pope burnings, 334
SHAFTESBURY, Lord, on the origin of irony, _n._ 436
his character of Hobbes, _n._ 437
his conversation with Hobbes in Paris on his work, "The
Leviathan," _n._ 441