Paradise Lost, III., lines 470-471 [should be 469-470].
Page 49, line 5. Cleombrotus. Lamb's London Magazine footnote:—
He who, to enjoy
Plato's Elysium, leap'd into the sea.
Paradise Lost, III., lines 471-472.
Page 49, line 8. Plasterers at Babel. Lamb's London Magazine note:—
The builders next of Babel on the plain
Of Sennaar.
Paradise Lost, III., lines 466-467.
Page 49, line 10. My right hand. Lamb, it is probably unnecessary to remind the reader, stammered too.
Page 49, line 13 from foot. Duns, Duns Scotus (1265?-1308?), metaphysician, author of De modis significandi sive Grammatica Speculativa and other philosophic works. Known as Doctor Subtilis. There was nothing of Duns in the London Magazine; the sentence ran: "Mr. Hazlitt, I cannot indulge you in your definitions." This was at a time when Lamb and Hazlitt were not on good terms.
Page 49, last line. Honest R——. Lamb's Key gives "Ramsay, London Library, Ludgate Street; now extinct." I have tried in vain to find out more about Ramsay. The London Library was established at 5 Ludgate Street in 1785. Later, the books were lodged at Charles Taylor's house in Hatton Garden, and were finally removed to the present London Institute in Finsbury Circus.