[120]. Mr. Liston. John Liston (1776–1846).
[120]. His character of a country schoolmaster. In The Deserted Village.
Warton. Thomas Warton (1728–1790), author of The History of English Poetry (1774–81). He succeeded William Whitehead as poet laureate.
Tedious and brief. All’s Well that Ends Well, II. 3, etc.
[122]. Chatterton. Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770). The verse of Wordsworth’s quoted is in Resolution and Independence.
Dr. Milles, etc. Dr. Jeremiah Milles (1713–1784), whom Coleridge described as ‘an owl mangling a poor dead nightingale.’ See Sir Herbert Croft’s (1751–1816) Love and Madness, Letter 51 (1780). Vicesimus Knox, D.D. (1752–1821), author of many volumes of Essays, Sermons, etc.
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[123]. Unslacked of motion. See vol. IV., note to p. 42.
Anderson. Robert Anderson, M.D. (1751–1830), editor and biographer of British Poets.
Mr. Malone. Edmond Malone (1741–1812), the Shakespearian editor. He did not believe in the ‘antiquity’ of Chatterton’s productions. See his ‘Cursory Observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley,’ 1782.