[889] Walpole's Letters, ii. 35, quoted by Walcot, 56.
[890] Walcot, 53.
[891] Considerations on the present State of Religion, 1801, p. 47.—Polwhele's Introduction to Lavington, § ccxx. &c.
[892] Considerations, &c. 53. Q. Rev. vol. x. 54.
[893] A.L. Barbauld's Works, by Lucy Aikin, ii. p. 459.
[894] 'Hints on English Architecture'—Dr. F. Savers' Life and Works, ii. 203. So also Bishop Watson, in 1800, complained that not only were there many too few churches in London, but 'the inconvenience is much augmented by the pews which have been erected therein. He would have new churches built with no appropriated seats, simply benches'—Anecdotes of Bishop Watson's Life, ii. 111.
[895] Fielding's Joseph Andrews, chap. 13.
[896] Robert Blair's The Grace, lines 36-7.
[897] Quoted, with some humour, by Bishop Newton, in defending Sir Joshua Reynolds' proposals for paintings in St. Paul's.—Works, i. 142.
[898] Christoph. Smart's Poems, 'The Hop Garden,' book ii.