Footnotes
[394:1] See Garth, page [295].
Crabbe: Tales of the Hall, book iii. Graves: The Epicure.
[395:1] The character of the French.
[395:2] See Dryden, page [277].
[395:3] When Davies asked for an explanation of "Luke's iron crown," Goldsmith referred him to a book called "Géographie Curieuse," and added that by "Damien's bed of steel" he meant the rack.—Granger: Letters, (1805), p. 52.
C'est un verre qui luit,
Qu'un souffle peut détruire, et qu'un souffle a produit
(It is a shining glass, which a breath may destroy, and which a breath has produced).—De Caux (comparing the world to his hour-glass).
[397:1] See Dryden, page [269].
[397:2] A cap by night, a stocking all the day—Goldsmith: A Description of an Author's Bed-Chamber.
[398:1] The twelve good rules were ascribed to King Charles I.: 1. Urge no healths. 2. Profane no divine ordinances. 3. Touch no state matters. 4. Reveal no secrets. 5. Pick no quarrels. 6. Make no comparisons. 7. Maintain no ill opinions. 8. Keep no bad company. 9. Encourage no vice. 10. Make no long meals. 11. Repeat no grievances. 12. Lay no wagers.
[398:2] See Tom Brown, page [286].
[398:3] See Bacon, page [165].
The wretch condemn'd with life to part
Still, still on hope relies;
And every pang that rends the heart
Bid expectation rise.
Original MS.
Hope, like the taper's gleamy light,
Adorns the wretch's way.
Original MS.
[400:1] See Rochester, page [279].
[400:2] Written in imitation of "Chanson sur le fameux La Palisse," which is attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye:—
On dit que dans ses amours
Il fut caressé des belles,
Qui le suivirent toujours,
Tant qu'il marcha devant elles
(They say that in his love affairs he was petted by beauties, who always followed him as long as he walked before them).
While Fell was reposing himself in the hay,
A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;
But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light,
And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.
Lessing: Paraphrase of a Greek Epigram by Demodocus.
[401:2] Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.—Rochefoucauld: Maxim 22.
[401:3] Ray: Proverbs. Fuller: Wise Sentences. Αύτὸ δὲ τὸ σιγᾶν ὁμολογοῦντος ἐστί σου.—Euripides: Iph. Aul., 1142.
[401:4] Measures, not men.—Chesterfield: Letter, Mar. 6, 1742. Not men, but measures.—Burke: Present Discontents.
[401:5] See Bacon, page [171].
[401:6] See Chaucer, page [4].
[402:1] See Burton, page [185].
[402:2] See Young, page [308].
[402:3] An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.—Pliny the Younger: Letters, book ii. letter xv. 1.
[402:4] See Middleton, page [174].
[403:1] See Butler, pages 215, 216.
[403:2] There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner.
Boswell: Life of Johnson, An. 1775.
[403:3] See Young, page [310].
THOMAS WARTON. 1728-1790.
All human race, from China to Peru,[403:4]
Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.
Universal Love of Pleasure.
Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways
Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers.
Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon.