[612]. i. 33.
[613]. Hurd is reserved for the next volume.
[614]. ii. 457.
[615]. Kames has this spelling, which is indeed so universal that any other may seem pedantic. Yet it is needless to say that the word so spelt is a vox nihili, and should be “parallelepipedon.”
[616]. I use the Tegg edition, London, 1850.
[617]. He had, of course, good authority for it, including that of Dryden; but it is obviously better to limit it in the modern sense than to use it equivocally. Mason (not Gray’s friend, but an interesting and little-known person to whom I hope to recur in the next volume) had already seen this, and expressly referred to it.
[618]. Works, Oxford, 1841.
[619]. Note to Pt. II. chap. vii. of the Enquiries, p. 433, ed. cit.
[620]. Harris deserves a good word for his prosodic studies, which may entitle him to reappear in the next volume.
[621]. “There never was a time when rules did not exist; they always made a part of that immutable truth,” &c.—P. 450.