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[ i.e. the University theatre.—ED.]
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[ Colonel Digby, who from this time is always called Mr. Fairly instead of Colonel Fairly, in the “Diary,”—ED.]
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[ Dr. Joseph Warton, author of the “Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope.” He was headmaster of Winchester school—ED.]
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[ Jacob Bryant, the distinguished classical scholar and author; born 1715; died 1804. His principal work was “A New System or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology,” published in 1774. During the last part of his life he resided at Cypenham, in Farnham Royal, near Windsor. One of Bryant's friends said of him that “he was a very good scholar, and knew all things up to Noah, but not a single thing in the world beyond the Deluge!”—ED.]
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[ Aime Argand, inventor of the argand lamp.—ED.]