[598] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 279.
[599] Henderson’s History of the Rebellion, p. 122.
[600] Smollett’s History of England, iii. 183.
[601] He means Mr. and Mrs. Thrale and their eldest daughter.
[602] Johnson is quoting Parnell’s Hymn to Contentment. Pope, in Donne’s Satires Versified (iv. 185), calls “solitude the nurse of sense.”
[603] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, ii. 179.
[604] Johnson calls them pails. In his time pails were only made of wood, if we can trust his definition of the word in his Dictionary.
[605] J. Knox’s Tour through the Highlands in 1786, p. 255.
[606] T. Garnett’s Observations, &c., ii. 12.
[607] W. Sacheverell’s Account of the Isle of Man, &c., p. 128.