Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers

by W. E. Winks

[21] Bradburn’s Life, pp. 233-235.

[22] Bradburn’s Life, pp. 228, 229.

[23] 2 Kings 6:5.

[24] Proverbs 31:21.

[25] The “Della Cruscan school.” See below.

[26] The name Cruscan was taken from the Florentine Academy, by Robert Merry, the founder of this school of mawkish and affected poetasters.

[27] “History of Booksellers.” H. Curwen. Chatto & Windus. P. 175.

[28] Ibid., pp. 180, 181.

[29] Quoted in “The Lives of Eminent Englishmen.” Fullarton & Co., Glasgow, 1838. Vol. viii. pp. 317, 318.

[30] Tennyson, “In Memoriam,” stanza xxi.