the model of that of the French. This project was promoted by the

late Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer, and much more by the Lord

Bolingbroke, Secretary of State, who had the happy talent of

speaking without premeditation in the Parliament House with as much

purity as Dean Swift wrote in his closet, and who would have been

the ornament and protector of that academy. Those only would have

been chosen members of it whose works will last as long as the

English tongue, such as Dean Swift, Mr. Prior, whom we saw here