For me, it is always a maxim

To honour humble worth; and, scorning state, P— on the proud inhospitable gate.

For which reason I go scattering my water every where about Richmond. »

2, Summer, v. 1401 et suiv.

3. Hill écrivait à Mallet, le 24 mai 1743 : « You were asking what I think of the subject of Socrates for a tragedy.…. the philosophical ray is too faint for the clash of passions : this objection that lay against Cato will bear equally bad against Socrates. » (Hizr’s Works, vol. IT, p. 210.)

- Est-ce Thomson qui reprenait son projet d'il ÿ a douze ans, ou Mallet qui songeait à exploiter pour son compte le sujet abandonné par son ami?