FOOTNOTES:
[363] Story's Gate and Rosamond's Pond were at opposite ends of Birdcage Walk (see No. 60).
[364] "Steele assisted in this paper" (Tickell).
[365] No. 95.
[366] Dr. Smalridge (see No. 72).
[367] What follows is said to have been written by Addison. "It would seem as though Steele felt himself unable to proceed, and his friend had taken the pen from his trembling hand" (Forster, "Historical and Biographical Essays," 1858, ii. 141).
[368] Pliny, Book viii., Epist. 5.
[369] "Says very justly" (folio).
[370] "Paradise Lost," iv. 639.
[371] "But as he [Milton] endeavours everywhere to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and of Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat of venerable in them. But I found not there neither that for which I looked ['beautiful turns']." (Dryden's" Discourse on Satire.")
[372] "Paradise Lost," ii. 557.
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