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| Vol. I. | Pages 29, 75. |
| II. | Page 3. (Advert.), Pages 15, 111, 469, and add pages 471-2. |
| III. | Page 429, to be found in the last sheet of Vol. VI. |
| VII. | Page 317. |
| IX. | Page 435. |
| XI. | Add pages 161-2 after the Title, “Odes, Songs, and Lyrical Pieces.” |
| XII. | Contents. |
| XIII. | Pages 97, 297. |
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Mr Walsh was born in 1663, and in 1691 must have been twenty-eight years old. Still he was but a youth in the eyes of Dryden, who was now advanced in life.
[2] Mr Malone observes, that, according to Antony Wood, (Ath. Oxon. ii. 423.) this was not said of Waller, but by that poet, of Sir John Denham.—“In the latter end of the year 1641, Sir John published the tragedy called the ‘Sophy,’ which took extremely much, and was admired by all ingenious men, particularly by Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield, who then said of the author, that he broke out, like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand strong, before any body was aware, or the least suspected it.” Mr Malone adds, that the observation is more applicable to Denham than to Waller; for Denham, from the age of sixteen, when he went to Trinity College, in Oxford, November 18, 1631, to the time of his father’s death, January 6, 1638-9, was considered as a dull and dissipated young man; whereas Waller distinguished himself, as a poet, before he was eighteen. Besides, the “Sophy” was published just when the Irish rebellion broke out.