[376] Beattie, always nervous about his Scotticisms, was flutteringly pleased, and some time later repaid her with this astounding piece of flattery: ‘My models of English are Addison and those who write like Addison, particularly yourself, Madam, and Lord Lyttelton. We may be allowed to imitate what we cannot hope to equal.’ Forbes’s Life 2. 115; 30 January 1783.
[377] Forbes’s Life 2. 132 and M. Forbes, op. cit. p. 110.
[378] Arbuthnot. Forbes’s Life 1. 203 and n.
[379] He wrote that he had ‘been making some progress in a little work of which you saw a sketch at Sandelford, and which you did me the honour to read and approve of. It was your approbation and that of the Bishop of Chester and Sir William Forbes that determined me to revise, correct, and enlarge it, with a view to publication.’ Forbes 2. 164.
[380] See Forbes’s Beattie 2. 41.
[381] Literary Anecdotes of E. H. Barker, London 1852.
[382] Inquiry into some Passages in Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, particularly his Observations on Lyric Poetry and the Odes of Gray. London 1783.
[383] Letters 13. 5.
[384] Cowper’s Letters, edited by Thomas Wright, 3. 267.
[385] Cowper’s Letters, edited by Thomas Wright, 3. 306; 21 August 1788; cf. 3. 266; 267; 277.