Dr. Gregory. George Gregory, D.D. (1754–1808), author of The Life of Thomas Chatterton, with Criticisms on his Genius and Writings, and a concise view of the Controversy concerning Rowley’s Poems. 1789.
[124]. Annibal Caracci. Annibale Caracci (1560–1609), painter of the Farnese Gallery at Rome.
Essays, p. 144. The reference should be to Dr. Knox’s Essay, No. CXLIV., not p. 144 (vol. iii. p. 206, 1787).
[127]. He was like a man made after supper. 2 King Henry IV., III. 2.
Some one said. Cf. Hazlitt’s Essay, ‘Of Persons one would wish to have seen,’ where Burns’s hand, held out to be grasped, is described as ‘in a burning fever.’
Made him poetical. As You Like It, III. 2.
Create a soul under the ribs of death. Comus, 562.
[128]. A brazen candlestick tuned. 1 King Henry IV., III. 1.
In a letter to Mr. Gray. January 1816.
Via goodman Dull. Love’s Labour’s Lost, V. 1.