[273] Michael Angelo Buonarotti (1474-1563) left a number of slight poems in addition to his vast works of sculpture, painting, and architecture.—T.
[274] Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) lost the use of his right leg when eighteen months old.—T.
[275] Sonnets, xxxvii. 3.—T.
[276] Sonnets, lxxi. I, 5-12.—T.
[277] Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), the voluminous author of Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and the History of Sir Charles Grandison. Clarissa Harlowe was published in 1748.—T.
[278] Henry Fielding (1707-1754), author of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones (1749), etc.—T.
[279] Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), author of Tristram Shandy (1759-1767), etc.—T.
[280] Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield had appeared in 1766.—T.
[281] Godwin's Caleb Williams was published in 1794.—T.
[282] Matthew Gregory Lewis (1773-1818), familiarly known as Monk Lewis from the Monk, his principal novel, published in 1795.—T.