[383] Dodsley's Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands (1758, fifth edition), vol. VI, pp. 161-62.

[384] Ibid., vol. III, p. 142.

[385] Johnson: Works of the English Poets, vol. VIII, p. 165.

[386] Ibid., vol. V, p. 62.

[387] Ibid., vol. XXXIX, pp. 233-42.

[388] Wheeler, Ethel Root: Famous Blue Stockings, pp. 78-82.

[389] Memoirs of the Verney Family, vol. IV, p. 220.

[390] Ashton, John: Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, p. 19.

[391] Malcolm, Jas. P.: Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London in the Eighteenth Century, vol. I, p. 328.

[392] Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 370.