[193] “History of English Prosody” (1908), Vol. II, p. 449.
[194] “History of English Prosody,” op. cit., Vol. II, p. 480; and cp. ibid., p. 496.
[195] Prefaces, “Poetical Works,” ed. Hutchinson (Oxford, 1916), p. 936.
[196] Vide Courthope, “History of English Poetry” (1910), Vol. I, Chap. IX, for an account of mediaeval allegory and personification.
[197] E.g. “Palamon,” II, 480, 564, 565; Æneas XII, 505-506.
[198] “Black Melancholy” (ll. 163-168) and “Hope” (l. 278), the former of which especially pleased Joseph Warton (“Essay on Pope”: Works, Vol. I, p. 314).
[199] Elton, “The Augustan Ages” (1895), p. 209.
[200] Cf. “Suicide” (Canto II, 194-250).
[201] Cf. also Bk. I, ll. 10, 11; 548, etc.
[202] Especially in Book III of “The Duellist,” where the reader is baffled and wearied by the unending array of bloodless abstractions.