[97]. Choice Collection of Scots Poems. In three Parts. Reprinted in 1 vol. (Glasgow, 1869).
[98]. The Evergreen, The Tea-Table Miscellany. Reprinted in 4 vols. (Glasgow, 1876).
[99]. Said to be Ambrose Philips. If so, the book, despite its uncritical and heterogeneous character, is “Namby-Pamby’s” best work by far. There is a reprint, without date (3 vols.), among the very valuable series of such things which were published by Pearson c. 1870.
[100]. For more on them, see chap. vi. of this book.
[101]. Ausonius, Ep. 77.
[102]. With acknowledgments to Longinus.
[103]. Mr Gosse, I find, agrees with me on this point. It is well known that ignorance of German was almost (Chesterfield, I think, in encouraging his son to the study, says roundly that it was quite) universal among Englishmen in the mid-eighteenth century.
[104]. Gray’s Works (ed. Gosse, 4 vols., London, 1884), ii. p. 106, Letter xliv., dated April, without the year; but the next gives it: 1742.
[105]. Gray has been upbraided with his description (in part at least) of Boswell’s Paoli-book as “a dialogue between a green goose and a hero.” It does him no discredit; in fact, he might have summarised the whole of Boswell’s work, had he lived to see it, as that of a green goose with a semi-heroic love for heroes.
[106]. I am well aware that the “parallel-passagers” have tried their jaws on these.