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[ We may mention that Roscoe and Dr Croly (in his admirable Life of Pope, prefixed to an excellent edition of his works) take a different view, and defend the poet.]

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[ 'Preface:' to the miscellaneous works of Pope, 1716.]

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[ Written at sixteen years of age.]

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[ 'Trumbull:' see Life. He was born in Windsor Forest.]

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[ 'Phosphor:' the planet Venus.]

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[ 'Wondrous tree:' an allusion to the royal oak.]

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[ 'Thistle:' of Scotland.]

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[ 'Lily:' of France.]

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[ 'Garth:' Dr Samuel Garth, author of the 'Dispensary.']

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[ 'The woods,' &c., from Spenser.]

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[ 'Wycherley:' the dramatist. See Life.]

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[ This pastoral, Pope's own favourite, was produced on occasion of the death of a Mrs Tempest, a favourite of Mr Walsh, the poet's friend, who died on the night of the great storm in 1703, to which there are allusions. The scene lies in a grove—time, midnight.]

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[ 'Stagyrite: Aristotle.]

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[ 'La Mancha's knight:' taken from the spurious second part of 'Don Quixote.']

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[ 'Unlucky as Fungoso:' see Ben Johnson's 'Every Man in his Humour.']

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[ 'Timotheus:' see 'Alexander's Feast.']

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[ 'Scotists and Thomists:' two parties amongst the schoolmen, headed by Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas.]

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[ 'Duck-lane:' a place near Smithfield, where old books were sold.]

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[ 'Milbourns:' the Rev. Mr Luke Milbourn, an opponent of Dryden.]

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[ Hall has imitated and excelled this passage. See his pamphlet, 'Christianity consistent with a Love of Freedom.']

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[ In this passage he alludes to Cromwell, Charles II., and the Revolution of 1688, and to their various effects on manners, opinions, &c.]

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[ 'Appius:' Dennis.]

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[ 'Garth did not write:' a common slander at that time in prejudice of that author.]

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[ 'Maeonian star:' Homer.]

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[ 'Dionysius:' of Halicarnassus.]

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[ 'Mantua:' Virgil's birth-place.]

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[ 'Such was the Muse:' Essay on poetry by the Duke of Buckingham.]

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[ 'Caryll:' Mr Caryll (a gentleman who was secretary to Queen Mary, wife of James II., whose fortunes he followed into France, author of the comedy of 'Sir Solomon Single,' and of several translations in Dryden's Miscellanies) originally proposed the subject to Pope, with the view of putting an end, by this piece of ridicule, to a quarrel that had arisen between two noble families, those of Lord Petre and of Mrs Fermor, on the trifling occasion of his having cut off a lock of her hair. The author sent it to the lady, with whom he was acquainted; and she took it so well as to give about copies of it. That first sketch (we learn from one of his letters) was written in less than a fortnight, in 1711, in two cantos only, and it was so printed; first, in a miscellany of Ben. Lintot's, without the name of the author. But it was received so well that he enlarged it the next year by the addition of the machinery of the Sylphs, and extended it to five cantos.]

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[ 'Sylph:' the Rosicrucian philosophy was a strange offshoot from Alchemy, and made up in equal proportions of Pagan Platonism, Christian Quietism, and Jewish Mysticism. See Bulwer's 'Zanoni.' Pope has blended some of its elements with old legendary stories about guardian angels, fairies, &c.]

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[ 'Baron:' Lord Petre.]

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[ Burns had this evidently in his eye when he wrote the lines 'Some hint the lover's harmless wile,' &c., in his 'Vision.']

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[ 'Atalantis:' a famous book written about that time by a woman: full of court and party-scandal, and in a loose effeminacy of style and sentiment which well suited the debauched taste of the better vulgar.]

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[ 'Winds:' see Odyssey.]

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[ 'Thalestris:' Mrs Morley.]

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[ 'Sir Plume:' Sir George Brown.]

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[ 'Maeander:' see Ovid.]

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[ 'Partridge:' see Pope's and Swift's Miscellanies.]

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[ This poem was written at two different times: the first part of it, which relates to the country, in the year 1704, at the same time with the Pastorals; the latter part was not added till the year 1713, in which it was published.]

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[ 'Stuart:' Queen Anne.]

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[ 'Savage laws:' the forest-laws.]

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[ 'The fields are ravish'd:' alluding to the destruction made in the New Forest, and the tyrannies exercised there by William I.]

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[ 'Himself denied a grave:' the place of his interment at Caen in Normandy was claimed by a gentleman as his inheritance, the moment his servants were going to put him in his tomb: so that they were obliged to compound with the owner before they could perform the king's obsequies.]

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[ 'Second hope:' Richard, second son of William the Conqueror.]

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[ 'Queen:' Anne.]

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[ 'Still bears the name:' the river Loddon.]

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[ 'Trumbull:' see Pastorals.]

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[ 'Cooper's Hill:' celebrated by Denham.]

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[ 'Flowed from Cowley's tongue:' Mr Cowley died at Chertsey, on the borders of the forest, and was from thence conveyed to Westminster.]

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[ 'Noble Surrey:' Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, one of the first refiners of English poetry; who flourished in the time of Henry VIII.]

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[ 'Edward's acts:' Edward III., born here.]

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[ 'Henry mourn:' Henry VI.]

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[ 'Once-fear'd Edward sleeps:' Edward IV.]

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[ 'Augusta:' old name for London.]

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[ 'And temples rise:' the fifty new churches.]

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[ The author of 'Successio,' Elkanah Settle, appears to have been as much hated by Pope as he had been by Dryden. He figures prominently in 'The Dunciad.']

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[ This was written at twelve years old.]

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[ This ode was written in imitation of the famous sonnet of Adrian to his departing soul. Flaxman also supplied hints for it. See 'The Adventurer.']

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[ See Memoir.]

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[ 'But what with pleasure:' this alludes to a famous passage of Seneca, which Mr Addison afterwards used as a motto to his play, when it was printed.]

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[ Done by the author in his youth.]

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[ Dr Johnson in the Literary Review highly commends this piece.]

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[ This, it is said, was intended for Queen Caroline.]

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[ 'Zamolxia:' a disciple of Pythagoras.]

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[ 'The youth:' Alexander the Great: the tiara was the crown peculiar to the Asian princes: his desire to be thought the son of Jupiter Ammon, caused him to wear the horns of that god, and to represent the same upon his coins; which was continued by several of his successors.]

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[ 'Timoleon:' had saved the life of his brother Timophanes in the battle between the Argives and Corinthians; but afterwards killed him when he affected the tyranny.]

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[ 'He whom ungrateful Athens:' Aristides.]

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[ 'May one kind grave:' Abelard and Eloisa were interred in the same grave, or in monuments adjoining, in the monastery of the Paraclete: he died in the year 1142; she in 1163.]

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[ 'Robert, Earl of Oxford:' this epistle was sent to the Earl of Oxford with Dr Parnell's poems, published by our author, after the said earl's imprisonment in the Tower, and retreat into the country, in the year 1721.]

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[ 'Secretary of State:' in the year 1720.]

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[ 'Work of years:' Fresnoy employed above twenty years in finishing his poem.]

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[ 'Worsley:' Lady Frances, wife of Sir Robert Worsley.]

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[ 'Voitnre:' a French wit, born in Amiens 1598, died in 1648; a favourite of the Duke of Orleans, and member of the French Academy.]

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[ 'Monthansier:' Mademoiselle Paulet.]

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[ 'Coronation:' of King George the First, 1715.]

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[ 'M.B.:' Martha Blount.]

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[ 'Southern:' author of 'Oronooko,' &c. He lived to the age of eighty-six.]

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[ 'A table:' he was invited to dine on his birthday with this nobleman, who had prepared for him the entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down.]

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[ 'Harp:' the Irish harp was woven on table-cloths, &c.]

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[ 'Prologues:' Dryden used to sell his prologues at four guineas each, till, when Southern applied for one, he demanded six, saying, 'Young man, the players have got my goods too cheap.']

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[ 'Mr C.:' Mr Cleland, whose residence was in St James's Place, where he died in 1741. See preface to 'The Dunciad.']

81 (return)
[ 'Trumbull:' one of the principal Secretaries of State to King William III., who, having resigned his place, died in his retirement at Easthamstead, in Berkshire, 1746.]

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[ 'Heaven's eternal year is thine:' borrowed from Dryden's poem on Mrs Killigrew.]

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[ 'Fenton:' Pope's joint-translator of Homer's Odyssey. See Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets.']

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[ His only daughter expired in his arms, immediately after she arrived in France to see him.]

85 (return)
[ Lady Mary Montague wrote a rejoinder to this poem, in a caustic, sneering vein.]

86 (return)
[ 'Vindicate the ways,' &c.: borrowed from Milton.]

87 (return)
[ 'Egypt's God:' Apis.]

88 (return)
[ 'Thin partitions' from Dryden.]

89 (return)
[ 'Glory, jest, and riddle of the world:' Pascal in his 'PensÉes' has a thought almost identical with this.]

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[ 'Good bishop:' De Belsance, who distinguished himself by attention to the sick of the plague, in his diocese of Marseilles in 1720.]

91 (return)
[ 'Bethel:' a benevolent gentleman in Yorkshire, a great friend of Pope's.]

92 (return)
[ 'Chartres:' Colonel, infamous for every vice—a fraudulent gambler, &c. &c.]

93 (return)
[ 'Cromwell:' it is not necessary now to answer this insult to the greatest of Britain's kings. It is a clever ape chattering at a dead lion.]

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[ 'Good John:' John Serle, his old and faithful servant.]

95 (return)
[ 'Mint:' a place to which insolvent debtors retired, to enjoy an illegal protection, which they were there suffered to afford one another, from the persecution of their creditors.—P.]

96 (return)
[ 'Pitholeon:' The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes, who pretended much to Greek.—P.]

97 (return)
[ 'Butchers, Henley:' Orator Henley used to declaim to the butchers in Newport market.]

98 (return)
[ 'Freemasons, Moore:' he was of this society, and frequently headed their processions.]

99 (return)
[ 'Bishop Boulter:' friend of Ambrose Philips.]

100 (return)
[ 'Burnets, &c.:' authors of secret and scandalous history.]

101 (return)
[ 'Gildon:' a forgotten critic and dramatist—a bitter libeller of Pope.]

102 (return)
[ 'A Persian tale:' Ambrose Philips translated a book called the 'Persian Tales.']

103 (return)
[ 'Bufo:' most commentators refer this to Lord Halifax.]

104 (return)
[ 'Sir Will:' Sir William Young.]

105 (return)
[ 'Bubo:' Babb Dodington.]

106 (return)
[ 'Who to the dean, and silver bell:' meaning the man who would have persuaded the Duke of Chandos that Mr P. meant him in those circumstances ridiculed in the 'Epistle on Taste.'—P.]

107 (return)
[ 'Sporus:' Lord Hervey.]

108 (return)
[ 'The lie so oft o'erthrown:' as, that he received subscriptions for Shakspeare; that he set his name to Mr Broome's verses, &c., which, though publicly disproved, were nevertheless shamelessly repeated.—P.]

109 (return)
[ 'The imputed trash:' such as profane psalms, court-poems, and other scandalous things, printed in his name by Curll and others.—P.]

110 (return)
[ 'Abuse:' namely, on the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Burlington, Lord Bathurst, Lord Bolingbroke, Bishop Atterbury, Dr Swift, Dr Arbuthnot, Mr Gay, his friends, his parents, and his very nurse, aspersed in printed papers, by James Moore, G. Ducket, L. Wolsted, Tho. Bentley, and other obscure persons.—P.]

111 (return)
[ 'Sappho:' Lady M.W. Montague.]

112 (return)
[ 'Welsted:' accused Pope of killing a lady by a satire.]

113 (return)
[ 'Budgell:' Budgell, in a weekly pamphlet called The Bee, bestowed much abuse on him.]

114 (return)
[ 'Except his will:' alluding to Tindal's will, by which, and other indirect practices, Budgell, to the exclusion of the next heir, a nephew, got to himself almost the whole fortune of a man entirely unrelated to him.—P.]

115 (return)
[ 'Curlls of town and court:' Lord Hervey.]

116 (return)
[ 'Noble wife:' alluding to the fate of Dryden and Addison.]

117 (return)
[ 'An oath:' Pope's father was a nonjuror.]

118 (return)
[ Curll set up his head for a sign.]

119 (return)
[ His father was crooked.]

120 (return)
[ His mother was much afflicted with headaches.]

121 (return)
[ 'Fortescue:' Baron of Exchequer, and afterwards Master of the Mint.]

122 (return)
[ 'Fanny:' Hervey.]

123 (return)
[ 'Falling horse:' the horse on which George II. charged at the battle of Oudenarde.]

124 (return)
[ 'Shippen:' the only member of parliament Sir R. Walpole found incorruptible.]

125 (return)
[ 'Lee:' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but true poet of Dryden's day.]

126 (return)
[ 'Budgell:' Addison's relation, who drowned himself in the Thames.]

127 (return)
[ 'And he whose lightning:' Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, a man distinguished by the rapidity of his military movements—a petty Napoleon.]

128 (return)
[ 'Oldfield:' this eminent glutton ran through a fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a-year in the simple luxury of good eating.—P.]

129 (return)
[ 'Bedford-head:' a famous eating-house.]

130 (return)
[ 'Proud Buckingham:' Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.]

131 (return)
[ 'Aristippus:' the licentious parasite of Dionysius.]

132 (return)
[ 'Sticks:' Exchequer tallies—an old mode of reckoning.]

133 (return)
[ 'Barnard:' Sir John Barnard, an eminent citizen of the day.]

134 (return)
[ 'Lady Mary:' Montague, who was as great a sloven as a beauty.]

135 (return)
[ 'Murray:' afterwards Lord Mansfield.]

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[ 'Creech:' the translator of Horace.]

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[ 'Craggs:' his father was originally a humble man.]

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[ 'Cornbury:' an excellent and high-minded nobleman, great-grandson of Lord Clarendon, the historian.]

139 (return)
[ 'Tindal:' the infidel, author of 'Christianity as Old as the Creation.']

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[ 'Anstis:' Garter King-at-Arms.]

141 (return)
[ 'Luckless play:' Young's 'Buseris;' the name of the spendthrift is not known.]

142 (return)
[ 'Augustus:' referring ironically to George II., then excessively unpopular for refusing to enter into a war with Spain, which was supposed to have insulted our commerce.]

143 (return)
[ 'Skelton:' poet laureate to Henry VIII.]

144 (return)
[ 'Christ's Kirk o' the Green:' a ballad made by James I. of Scotland.]

145 (return)
[ 'The Devil:' the Devil Tavern, where Ben Johnson held his poetical club.]

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[ 'Horse-tail bare:' referring to Sertorius, who told one of his soldiers to pluck off a horse's tail at one effort. He failed, of course. Sertorius then told another to pluck it away, hair by hair. He succeeded; and thus Sertorius taught the lesson of hard-working, patient perseverance.]

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[ 'Gammer Gurton:' one of the first printed plays in English, and therefore much valued by some antiquaries.]

148 (return)
[ 'All, by the king's example:' a line from Lord Lansdown.]

149 (return)
[ 'Lely:' Sir Peter, who painted Cromwell and all the celebrities of his day.]

150 (return)
[ 'Ripley:' the government architect who built the Admiralty; no favourite except with his employers.]

151 (return)
[ 'Van:' Vanbrugh.]

152 (return)
[ 'Astraea:' Miss Bolin, author of obscene, but once popular novels.]

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[ 'Old Edward's armour beams on Cibber's breast:' the coronation of Henry VIII. and Queen Anne Boleyn, in which the play-houses vied with each other to represent all the pomp of a coronation. In this noble contention, the armour of one of the kings of England was borrowed from the Tower, to dress the champion.—P.]

154 (return)
[ 'Bernini:' a great sculptor. He is said to have predicted Charles the First's melancholy fate from a sight of his bust.]

155 (return)
[ 'Colonel:' Cotterel of Rousham, near Oxford.]

156 (return)
[ 'Blois:' a town where French is spoken with great purity.]

157 (return)
[ 'Sir Godfrey:' Sir Godfrey Kneller.]

158 (return)
[ 'Monroes:' Dr Monroe, physician to Bedlam Hospital.]

159 (return)
[ 'Oldfield, Daitineuf:' two celebrated gluttons mentioned formerly.]

160 (return)
[ 'Tooting, Earl's Court:' two villages within a few miles of London.]

161 (return)
[ 'Composing songs:' Burns imitates this in the 'Vision'—]

162 (return)
[ 'Stephen:' Mr Stephen Duck.]

163 (return)
[ 'Servile chaplains:' Dr Kenett, who wrote a servile dedication to the Duke of Devonshire, to whom he was chaplain.]

164 (return)
[ 'Abbs Court:' a farm over against Hampton Court.]

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[ 'Townshend's turnips:' Lord Townshend, Secretary of State to Georges the First and Second. When this great statesman retired from business, he amused himself in husbandry, and was particularly fond of the cultivation of turnips; it was the favourite subject of his conversation.]

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[ 'Bu——:' Bubb Doddington.]

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[ 'Oglethorpe:' employed in settling the colony of Georgia. See Boswell's 'Johnson.']

168 (return)
[ 'Belinda:' in 'The Rape of the Lock.']

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[ 'Tips with silver:' occurs also in the famous moonlight scene in the 'Iliad'—]

'Tips with silver every mountain's head.']

170 (return)
[ 'Adieu!' how like Burns's lines, beginning—]

"But when life's day draws near the gloaming, Farewell to vacant, careless roaming!" &c.]

171 (return)
[ 'Donne:' Pope, it is said, imitated Donne's 'Satires' to show that celebrated men before him had been as severe as he. Donne was an extraordinary man—first a Roman Catholic, then a barrister, then a clergyman in the Church of England, and Dean of St Paul's,—a vigorous although rude satirist, a fine Latin versifier, the author of many powerful sermons, and of a strange book defending suicide; altogether a strong, eccentric, extravagant genius.]

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[ 'Paul:' supposed to be Paul Benfield, Esq., M.P., who was engaged in the jobbing transactions of that period; others fill up the blank in the original copy with Hall—as, for instance, Croly in his excellent edition.]

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[ 'Hoadley:' Bishop, whose sentences were wire-drawn.]

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[ 'Figs:' a prize-fighting academy; 'White's:' a gaming-house, both much frequented by the young nobility.]

175 (return)
[ 'Deadly sins:' the room hung with old tapestry, representing the seven deadly sins.]

176 (return)
[ 'Ascapart:' a giant of romance.]

177 (return)
[ 'Epilogue:' the first part of which was originally published as 'One thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight.' It appeared the same day with Johnson's 'London.']

178 (return)
[ 'Bubo:' Bubb Duddington.]

179 (return)
[ 'Sir Billy:' Tonge.]

180 (return)
[ 'Huggins:' formerly jailor of the Fleet prison, enriched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled.—P.]

181 (return)
[ 'Cropp'd our ears:' said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins, the captain of an English one. He cut off his ears, and bid him carry them to the king his master.—P.]

182 (return)
[ 'The great man:' the first minister.]

183 (return)
[ 'Seen him I have:' alluding to Pope's service to Abbe Southcot, see 'Life.']

184 (return)
[ 'Jekyl:' Sir Joseph Jekyl, master of the rolls, a true Whig in his principles, and a man of the utmost probity.—P.]

185 (return)
[ 'Lyttleton:' George Lyttleton, secretary to the Prince of Wales, distinguished both for his writings and speeches in the spirit of liberty.—P.]

186 (return)
[ 'Sejanus, Wolsey:' the one the wicked minister of Tiberius; the other, of Henry VIII. The writers against the court usually bestowed these and other odious names on the minister, without distinction, and in the most injurious manner.—P.]

187 (return)
[ 'Fleury:' Cardinal; and minister to Louis XV. It was a patriot-fashion, at that time, to cry up his wisdom and honesty.—P.]

188 (return)
[ 'Henley, Osborn:' see them in their places in 'The Dunciad.']

189 (return)
[ 'Nation's sense:' the cant of politics at that time.]

190 (return)
[ 'Carolina:' Queen-consort to King George II. She died in 1737. See, for her character, 'Heart of Midlothian.']

191 (return)
[ 'Gazetteer:' then Government newspaper.]

192 (return)
[ 'Immortal Selkirk:' Charles, third son of Duke of Hamilton, created Earl of Selkirk in 1887.]

193 (return)
[ 'Grave Delaware:' a title given that lord by King James II. He was of the bed-chamber to King William; he was so to King George I.; he was so to King George II. This Lord was very skilful in all the forms of the House, in which he discharged himself with great gravity.— P.]

194 (return)
[ 'Sister:' alluding to Lady M.W. Montague, who is said to have neglected her sister, the Countess of Mar, who died destitute in Paris.]

195 (return)
[ 'Cibber's son, Rich:' two players; look for them in 'The Dunciad.'—P.]

196 (return)
[ 'Blount:' author of an impious and foolish book, called 'The Oracles of Reason,' who, being in love with a near kinswoman of his, and rejected, gave himself a stab in the arm, as pretending to kill himself, of the consequence of which he really died.—P.]

197 (return)
[ 'Passerau:' author of another book of the same stamp, called 'A Philosophical Discourse on Death,' being a defence of suicide. He was a nobleman of Piedmont.]

198 (return)
[ 'A printer:' a fact that happened in London a few years past. The unhappy man left behind him a paper justifying his action by the reasonings of some of these authors.—P.]

199 (return)
[ 'Gin:' a spirituous liquor, the exhorbitant use of which had almost destroyed the lowest rank of the people, till it was restrained by an Act of Parliament in 1736.—P.]

200 (return)
[ 'Quaker's wife:' Mrs Drummond, a preacher.]

201 (return)
[ 'Landaff:' Harris by name, a worthy man, who had somehow offended the poet.]

202 (return)
[ 'Allen:' of Bath, Warburton's father-in-law, the prototype of All-worthy in 'Tom Jones.']

203 (return)
[ 'Paxton:' late solicitor to the Treasury.]

204 (return)
[ 'Guthrie:' the ordinary of Newgate, who publishes the memoirs of the malefactors, and is often prevailed upon to be so tender of their reputation, as to set down no more than the initials of their name.—P.]

205 (return)
[ 'Wild:' Jonathan, a famous thief, and thief-impeacher, who was at last caught in his own train and hanged.—P. See Fielding, and 'Jack Shepherd.']

206 (return)
[ 'Feels for fame, and melts to goodness:' this is a fine compliment; the expression showing, that fame was but his second passion.]

207 (return)
[ 'Scarb'rough:' Earl of, and Knight of the Garter, whose personal attachments to the king appeared from his steady adherence to the royal interest, after his resignation of his great employment of Master of the Horse; and whose known honour and virtue made him esteemed by all parties.—P.]

208 (return)
[ 'Esher's peaceful grove:' the house and gardens of Esher, in Surrey, belonging to the Hon. Mr Pelham, brother of the Duke of Newcastle.]

209 (return)
[ 'Carleton:' Lord, nephew of Robert Boyle.]

210 (return)
[ 'Argyll:' see 'Heart of Midlothian.']

211 (return)
[ 'Wyndham:' Chancellor of Exchequer; for the rest, see history.]

212 (return)
[ 'Yet higher:' he was at this time honoured with the esteem and favour of his Royal Highness the Prince.]

213 (return)
[ 'A friend:' unrelated to their parties, and attached only to their persons.]

214 (return)
[ 'Lord Mayor:' Sir John Barnard, Lord Mayor in the year of the poem, 1738.]

215 (return)
[ 'Spirit of Arnall:' look for him in his place, Dunciad, b. ii., ver. 315.]

216 (return)
[ 'Polwarth:' the Hon. Hugh Hume, son of Alexander Earl of Marchmont, grandson of Patrick Earl of Marchmont, and distinguished, like them, in the cause of liberty.—P.]

217 (return)
[ 'The bard:' a verse taken out of a poem to Sir R.W.—P.]

218 (return)
[ 'Japhet, Chartres:' see the epistle to Lord Bathurst.]

219 (return)
[ 'Black ambition:' the case of Cromwell in the civil war of England; and of Louis XIV. in his conquest of the Low Countries.—P.]

220 (return)
[ 'Boileau:' see his 'Ode on Namur.']

221 (return)
[ 'Opes the temple:' from Milton—'Opes the palace of Eternity.']

222 (return)
[ 'Anstis:' the chief herald-at-arms. It is the custom, at the funeral of great peers, to cast into the grave the broken staves and ensigns of honour.—P.]

223 (return)
[ 'Ver. 238:' some fill up the blanks with George II., and Frederick, Prince of Wales—others, with Kent and Grafton.]

224 (return)
[ 'Stair:' John Dalrymple, Earl of Stair, Knight of the Thistle.—P.]

225 (return)
[ 'Hough and Digby:' Dr John Hough, Bishop of Worcester, and the Lord Digby.]

END OF VOL. I.