[17] Matthew Green (1696-1737). Author of "The Spleen."—Ed.
[18] Dodsley's shop was in Pall Mall.—Ed.
[19] The first two volumes of Tristram Shandy were published towards the end of 1759.—Ed.
[20] New-Tarbat, a wild seat in the western Highlands of Scotland, surrounded with mountains.
"Far smoking o'er the interminable plain."
—Thomson's "Seasons."—Spring.—Ed.
[22] Boswell in a letter to his friend Temple, dated May 1st 1761, had thus described himself. "A young fellow whose happiness was always centred in London, ... who had got his mind filled with the most gay ideas—getting into the Guards, being about Court, enjoying the happiness of the beau monde, and the company of men of genius, &c."—Ed.
[23] Tolbooth Prison.
[24] This Ode is not worth reprinting.—Ed.
[25] Adam Smith. Boswell had attended his classes on Moral Philosophy, when a student in the University of Glasgow.—Ed.