with theirs should sail, “attendant sail.” “Essay on Man,” IV, 383-6.
[P. 126.] There died. “Eloisa to Abelard,” 40.
[P. 127.] If ever chance. Ibid., 347.
Bolingbroke. Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751). “The Essay plainly appears the fabric of a poet: what Bolingbroke supplied could be only the first principles; the order, illustration, and embellishments must be all Pope’s.” Pope’s Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope, II, 264.
[P. 128.] he spins, “draweth out.” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” v, 1, 18.
the very words. Cf. “Macbeth,” i, 3, 88: “the selfsame tune and words.”
Now night descending. “Dunciad,” I, 89.
Virtue may choose. “Epilogue to the Satires,” Dialogue I, 137.
[P. 129.] character of Chartres. “Moral Essays, Epistle III.”
his compliments. See p. [322].