Be mine ... to read eternal new romances. Letter to Richard West, Thursday, April 1742.
Don’t you remember Lords —— and ——. Letter to Richard West, May 27, 1742.
Shenstone. William Shenstone (1714–1763),the ‘water-gruel bard’ of Horace Walpole.
[119]. Akenside. Mark Akenside (1721–1770), physician and poet. The Pleasures of the Imagination was begun in his eighteenth year, and was first published in 1744.
Armstrong. John Armstrong (1709–1779), also physician and poet, whose Art of Preserving Health, a poem in four books, was also published in 1744.
Churchill. Charles Churchill (1731–1764), satirist. His Rosciad, in which the chief actors of the time were taken off, was published in 1761. The Prophecy of Famine, a Scots Pastoral, inscribed to John Wilkes, Esq., in which the Scotch are ridiculed, appeared in 1763.
Green. Matthew Green (1696–1737). The Spleen (1737).
Dyer. John Dyer (?1700–1758), Grongar Hill (1727). See Johnson’s Lives of the Poets and Wordsworth’s Sonnet to him.
His lot [feasts] though small. The Traveller.
And turn’d and look’d. The Deserted Village, 370. ‘Return’d and wept and still return’d to weep.’