reer which his Father had ſet him, would have been reduc'd to the Extremes of Miſery, had he not been patroniz'd by Monſieur Fagon.
But the Circumſtance which moſtly encourages the Arts in England, is the great Veneration which is paid them. The Picture of the prime Miniſter hangs over the Chimney of his own Cloſet, but I have ſeen that of Mr. Pope in twenty Noblemens Houſes. Sir Iſaac Newton was rever'd in his Life-time, and had a due reſpect paid to him after his Death; the greateſt Men in the Nation diſputing who ſhou'd have the Honour of holding up his Pall. Go into Weſtminſter-Abbey, and you'll find that what raiſes the Admiration of the Spectator is not the Mauſoleums of the Engliſh Kings, but the Monuments which the Gratitude of the Nation has erected, to perpetuate the Memory of thoſe illuſtrious Men who contributed to its Glory. We view their Statues in that Abbey in the ſame Manner, as thoſe of Sophocles, Plato and other immortal Perſonages were view'd in Athens;
