Footnotes:
[27] See note to Mitford’s Milton, vol. i., clii.
[59] Not Horace Walpole’s opinion. ‘Sir Joshua Reynolds has lent me Dr. Johnson’s Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef d’œuvre. It is a most trumpery performance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms, and much trash as anecdotes.’—Letters, vol. viii., p. 26.
[65] Howell’s State Trials, vol. xvii., p. 159.
[76] In Oxford Essays for 1858.
[79] Lectures and Essays on University Subjects: Lecture on Literature.
[101] “The late Mr. Carlyle was a brute and a boor.”—The World, October 29th, 1884.
[102] In the first edition, by a strange and distressing freak of the imagination, I took the ‘old struggler’ out of Lockhart and put her into Boswell.
[117] Anyone who does not wish this story to be true, will find good reasons for disbelieving it stated in Mr. Napier’s edition of Boswell, vol. iv., p. 385.
[159] All the difficulties connected with this subject will be found collected, and somewhat unkindly considered, in Mr. Dilke’s Papers of a Critic, vol. ii. The equity draughtsman will be indisposed to attach importance to statements made in a Bill of Complaint filed in Chancery by Lord Verney against Burke fourteen years after the transaction to which it had reference, in a suit which was abandoned after answer put in. But, in justice to a deceased plaintiff, it should be remembered that in those days a defendant could not be cross-examined upon his sworn answer.