[202] See his explanation, in the articles themselves.

[203] The Mid-Eighteenth Century, by J.H. Millar, p. 143, note.

[204] Ibid., p. 159. Scott compares Fielding and Smollett at some length in the Life of Smollett.

[205] Life of Le Sage.

[206] Life of Richardson.

[207] Life of Fielding.

[208] Life of Goldsmith. As we might expect, Scott speaks rather too favorably of Goldsmith's hack work in history and science.

[209] Life of Sterne.

[210] Lockhart, Vol. I, p. 35.

[211] See above, p. 53, note.