In Steele's Theatre, No. 3, January 9, 1720, his "representatives of a British audience" are "three of the fair sex for the front boxes, two gentlemen of wit and pleasure for the side-boxes, and three substantial citizens for the pit." "The virgin ladies," he said, in the Guardian, No. 29, April 14, 1713, "usually dispose themselves in the front of the boxes, the young married women compose the second row, while the rear is generally made up of mothers of long standing, undesigning maids, and contented widows."—Cunningham.
[499] It is a verse frequently repeated in Homer after any speech,
——So spoke—and all the heroes applauded.—Pope.
[500] From hence the first edition goes on to the conclusion, except a very few short insertions added to keep the machinery in view to the end of the poem.—Pope.
[501] Æneid. v. 140:
———ferit æthera clamor.
Their shouting strikes the skies.—Wakefield.
[502] Homer, Il. xx.—Pope.
[503] This verse is an improvement on the original, Æneid. viii. 246:
———trebidentque immisse lumine manes.
And the ghosts tremble at intruding light.—Wakefield.
The concluding line of the paragraph is from Addison's translation of a passage in Silius Italicus: