SPECTATOR 114.
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24. pretending. Pretentious.
in both cases. In both particulars, i.e. fortune and conversation.
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12. dipped. Mortgaged.
32. personate. Appear the possessor of.
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7, 13. Laertes and Irus. Laertes was king of Ithaca and father of Ulysses; Irus, or properly Arnaeus, a beggar who kept watch over Penelope's suitors. Their names are here introduced as typical of the rich and the poor man.
10. four shillings in the pound. The amount of the land tax.
19. way. If the verb is correctly are, way should be written in the plural.
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11. Cowley, the poet and essayist, who died in 1667.
14. author who published his works. Dr. Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, published Cowley's works in 1688.
18. face. Appearance. Cf. Shakespeare, Tempest, 1. ii. 104, 'The outward face of royalty.'
great Vulgar. Cowley concludes his Sixth Essay, Of Greatness, with a translation of Horace, Book III, Ode i, commencing:
Hence, ye profane, I hate ye all,
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
25. lately mentioned. In Steele's last paper, Spectator 109, p. 26, 1. 29.
26. point. Appoint. Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet xiv. 6:
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind.
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2. being. Existence, state of being. Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxi. II:
Tongues to be your being shall rehearse.
7. relish. Taste, enjoyment. Cf. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III. ii. 20:
The imaginary relish is so sweet
10. mansions. Abiding-places. Cf. St. John, xiv. 2, 'In my Father's house are many mansions.'
13. Quoted from an earlier passage in the same essay (v. note on p. 43, 1. 18).