[72]. More subtle web Arachne cannot spin. Faerie Queene, II. XII. 77.
Not with more glories. The Rape of the Lock, II. 1–22.
[73]. From her fair head. Ibid. III. 154.
Now meet thy fate. Ibid. V. 87–96.
The Lutrin of Boileau. Boileau’s account of an ecclesiastical dispute over a reading-desk was published in 1674–81. It was translated into English by Nicholas Rowe in 1708. The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712–14.
’Tis with our judgments. Essay on Criticism, 9–10.
[74]. Still green with bays. Ibid. 181–92.
His little bark with theirs should sail. Essay on Man, IV. 383–6. [‘My little bark attendant sail.’]
But of the two, etc. Essay on Criticism, See the Round Table, vol. I. p. 41, for the first mention of these couplets by Hazlitt.
[75]. There died the best of passions. Eloisa to Abelard, 40.