Such as angels weep. Paradise Lost, I. 620.
[68]. In either hand. Paradise Lost, XII. 637–47.
IV. ON DRYDEN AND POPE
The references throughout are to the Globe Editions of Pope and Dryden.
69–71. The question, whether Pope was a poet. In a slightly different form these paragraphs appeared in The Edinburgh Magazine, Feb. 1818.
[70]. The pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow. Romeo and Juliet, III. 5.
[71]. Martha Blount (1690–1762). She was Pope’s life-long friend, to whom he dedicated several poems, and to whom he bequeathed most of his property.
In Fortune’s ray. Troilus and Cressida, I. 3.
The gnarled oak ... the soft myrtle. Measure for Measure, II. 2.
Calm contemplation and poetic ease. Thomson’s Autumn, 1275.