[87] Life of Rowe.
[88] Life of Milton.
[89] Life of Swift.
[90] Preface to Shakespeare.
[91] Ibid.
[92] Preface to Shakespeare.
[93] 'He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence.' Ibid. Is there not some inconsistency in these various assertions.
[94] See in the same style his observations on Prior, Akenside, and others.
[95] Quere. Did ever Shakespeare, or any other man, compose a single page, or even a single line, on any subject, without either straining his faculties, or at least soliciting his invention. It is very possible that the Doctor did not suspect the full extent of his expression.
[96] Vide Dictionary.