[813] 'Young students of the lowest rank at Oxford are so called.' WARTON.—BOSWELL. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 28, 1773.
[814] 'His Dictionary.' WARTON.—BOSWELL.
[815] Johnson says (Works, viii. 403) that when Collins began to feel the approaches of his dreadful malady 'with the usual weakness of men so diseased he eagerly snatched that temporary relief with which the table and the bottle flatter and seduce.'
[816] 'Petrarch, finding nothing in the word eclogue of rural meaning, supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own pastorals aeglogues, by which he meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will mean only the talk of goats. This new name was adopted by subsequent writers.' Johnson's Works, viii. 390.
[817] 'Of the degree at Oxford.' WARTON.—BOSWELL.
[818] This verse is from the long-lost Bellerophon, a tragedy by Euripides. It is preserved by Suidas. CHARLES BURNEY. 'Alas! but wherefore alas? Man is born to sorrow.'
[819]
'Sento venir per allegrezza un tuono
Que frêmer l'aria, e rimbombar fa l'onrle:—
Odo di squille,' &c.
Orlando Furioso. c. xlvi. s. 2.
[820] 'His degree had now past, according to the usual form, the surrages of the heads of Colleges; but was not yet finally granted by the University. It was carried without a single dissentient voice.' WARTON. BOSWELL.