[222] Lockhart, Vol. II, p. 132.
[223] Familiar Letters, Vol. I, p. 192. In his George the Third, Thackeray said: "Do you remember the verses—the sacred verses—which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend Levett?" (Biographical edition of Thackeray, Vol. VII, p. 671.)
[224] Life of Johnson.
[225] Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate.
[226] Dryden, Vol. XI, p. 81, note; Review of the Life and Works of John Home, Quarterly, June, 1827.
[227] Familiar Letters, Vol. II, p. 44.
[228] Swift, Vol. XVI, p. 275, note. On one of the last sad days before Sir Walter left Scotland for his Italian journey he quoted in full Prior's poem on Mezeray's History of France. (Lockhart, Vol. V, pp. 339-40.)
[229] Swift, Vol. III, p. 36.
[230] Ibid., Vol. XIII, p. 24.
[231] Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe, Vol. II, p. 194.