The verses of Dr. Watts which her ladyship intends is the poem in his “Horæ Lyricæ,” entitled “A Sight of Heaven in Sickness.”
[31] “Daniel Defoe, His Life and Recently Discovered Writings.” By William Lee. 3 vols.
[32] See “Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel Defoe,” etc. By Walter Wilson, Esq.
[33] See the whole of this in the “Posthumous Works of the late learned and Rev. Isaac Watts,” 1779.
[34] See an interesting table of “Memorable Affairs in my Life and Coincidents,” in Watts’ writing, in [Appendix] to this volume.
[35] See “History of England,” by Earl Stanhope, vol. i. chap. 1.
[36] Lord Macaulay says: “There was considerable excitement, but it was allayed by a temperate and artful letter to the clergy, the work, in all probability, of Bishop Gibson, who stood high in the favour of Walpole, and shortly after became minister for ecclesiastical affairs.”
[37] Essay on “Popular Ignorance.”
[38] See the “Clapham Sect.” Sir James Stephen’s Essays in “Ecclesiastical Biography.”
[39] “Memorials, etc. etc. of the late W. M. Bunting.”