FOOTNOTES:

[1] Coats of mail.

[2] Fire.

[3] king.

[4] rowed.

[5] build.

[6] fine.

[7] birth.

[8] Romans.

[9] loyalty.

[10] peace.

[11] traitor.

[12] hides.

[13] seemliest.

[14] bondage.

[15] lucky.

[16] chance.

[17] I wot, I know.

[18] dirty.

[19] blue.

[20] foaming.

[21] approach.

[22] destroyed.

[23] smell.

[24] cucumbers.

[25] each one.

[26] wonder.

[27] yearned.

[28] Sultan.

[29] any.

[30] raised.

[31] Cheddar.

[32] rain.

[33] suitable.

[34] rocks.

[35] faintness.

[36] seized.

[37] as.

[38] realm.

[39] commenced.

[40] one.

[41] both.

[42] are.

[43] parted.

[44] Dryden wrote before the metrical importance of the final e was understood.

[45] inlaid.

[46] gems.

[47] gleaming.

[48] lily.

[49] frosted.

[50] shivered.

[51] eyes.

[52] hollow.

[53] moisture.

[54] blue.

[55] out over.

[56] gray.

[57] tangled.

[58] attire.

[59] withered dress.

[60] sheaf.

[61] arrows.

[62] feathered.

[63] once.

[64] drawn.

[65] wasteful wants.

[66] cassock.

[67] nonce.

[68] deceiver.

[69] grinned.

[70] groans.

[71] broil.

[72] bear.

[73] blood.

[74] arbor.

[75] living person.

[76] play.

[77] blow.

[78] died.

[79] feeding.

[80] tribute.

[81] slime.

[82] prepare.

[83] The Shepherd’s Calendar (1579).

[84] Polyolbion (1612).

[85] Tamburlaine (1587).

[86] Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594).

[87] Every Man in his Humour (1598).

[88] Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593).

[89] Essays (1597).

[90] Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).

[91] Mammon.

[92] carving.

[93] ore.

[94] hammered.

[95] ingots.

[96] utterly wasted.

[97] peeled.

[98] The passage containing this reference appears on pp. [142–143].

[99] This piece is sometimes ascribed to William Browne (1588–1643.)

[100] Peele.

[101] Nash and Marlowe.

[102] The Induction (1555).

[103] Tottel’s Miscellany (1557).

[104] The Steel Glass (1576).

[105] The Shepherd’s Calendar (1579).

[106] Plutarch’s Lives (1579).

[107] The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593).

[108] Venus and Adonis (1593).

[109] Essays (1597).

[110] Characters (1614).

[111] rejoice.

[112] bride.

[113] bulged.

[114] peel.

[115] The Cave of Despair.

[116] Poetical Blossoms (1633).

[117] Noble Numbers (1647).

[118] Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629).

[119] Paradise Lost (1658).

[120] Religio Medici (1642).

[121] The History of the Great Rebellion (1646).

[122] Holy Living (1650).

[123] The Leviathan (1651).

[124] Of St. Theresa.

[125] Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629).

[126] Religio Medici (1642).

[127] The History of the Great Rebellion (1646).

[128] Holy Living (1650).

[129] Paradise Lost (1658).

[130] Samson Agonistes (1671).

[131] 1802.

[132] Astræa Redux (1660).

[133] Hudibras (1663).

[134] The Old Bachelor (1693).

[135] The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678).

[136] His dedications, etc.

[137] Religio Laici (1682).

[138] The Hind and the Panther (1687).

[139] Don Sebastian (1690).

[140] Alexander’s Feast (1697).

[141] Fables (1700).

[142] The Rape of the Lock (1712).

[143] The Complaint, or Night Thoughts (1742).

[144] Gulliver’s Travels (1726).

[145] The Spectator (1711).

[146] Robinson Crusoe (1719).

[147] Sir Leslie Stephen.

[148] The Funeral (1701).

[149] The Review (1704).

[150] The Campaign (1704).

[151] The Battle of the Books (1704).

[152] Pastorals (1709).

[153] The Coverley essays.

[154] The Tatler (1709).

[155] An Essay on Criticism (1711).

[156] Cato (1713).

[157] Robinson Crusoe (1719).

[158] Gulliver’s Travels (1726).

[159] The Dunciad (1728).

[160] Elkanah Settle (see p. [207]).

[161] Lord John Hervey.

[162] The Seasons (1730).

[163] Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (1751).

[164] Poems (Kilmarnock edition, 1786).

[165] Pamela (1740).

[166] Tom Jones (1749).

[167] The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).

[168] vomited.

[169] Mount Pindus, sacred to the Muses. Hence, a poet’s dream.

[170] That is, “the blind one.” A reference to Milton’s blindness.

[171] share.

[172] rinse.

[173] London (1738).

[174] Pamela (1740).

[175] Joseph Andrew (1742).

[176] The Castle of Indolence (1748).

[177] The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749).

[178] Irene (1749).

[179] The Rambler (1750).

[180] Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (1751).

[181] Rasselas (1759).

[182] The Rosciad (1761).

[183] The Traveller (1764).

[184] The Vicar of Wakefield (1766).

[185] The Good-natured Man (1768).

[186] The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).

[187] The Task (1785).

[188] The Devil.

[189] going last.

[190] perhaps.

[191] Lyrical Ballads (1798).

[192] Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812).

[193] Endymion (1818).

[194] The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805).

[195] Waverley (1814).

[196] Northanger Abbey (1798).

[197] The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).

[198] Lyrical Ballads (1798).

[199] Northanger Abbey (1798).

[200] The Watchman (1796).

[201] The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805).

[202] Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812).

[203] Queen Mab (1813).

[204] Waverley (1814).

[205] Manfred (1817).

[206] Endymion (1818).

[207] Biographia Literaria (1817).

[208] Don Juan (1819).

[209] The Cenci (1819).

[210] The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).

[211] The Essays of Elia (1823).

[212] The Life of Byron (1830).

[213] The Life of Scott (1837).

[214] The Borderers (1842).

[215] Poems (1832).

[216] Pauline (1833).

[217] The Pickwick Papers (1836).

[218] Vanity Fair (1847).

[219] The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859).

[220] Sartor Resartus (1833).

[221] Essay on Milton (1825).

[222] The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849).

[223] Such a passage appears on p. [513].

[224] Coleridge.

[225] Poems (1832).

[226] Poems (1833).

[227] Sartor Resartus (1833).

[228] Pauline (1833).

[229] The Pickwick Papers (1836).

[230] Dramatic Lyrics (1842).

[231] The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon (1842).

[232] Modern Painters (1843).

[233] The Return of the Druses (1843).

[234] The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859).

[235] Chastelard (1865).

[236] Queen Mary (1875).

[237] An extract will be found on p. [565].

[238] irons.

[239] rope.

[240] mouth.

[241] Poetry

[242] Prose

[243] Stopped.

[244] Loose.

[245] English form.

[246] Italian form.

Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.