Bentley had said of Warburton that he was a man of monstrous appetite and bad digestion.
The remark hit Warburton's most obvious weakness.

Warburton, with his imperfect scholarship, and vast masses of badly assimilated learning, was jealous of the reputation of the thoroughly trained and accurate critic.

It was the dislike of a charlatan for the excellence which he endeavoured to simulate.

Bolingbroke, it may be added, was equally contemptuous in his language about men of learning, and for much the same reason.

He depreciated what he could not rival.