Halifax. Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, 1661–1715, joint-author with Matthew Prior of the parody on Dryden’s Hind and Panther, entitled The Town and Country Mouse.
[373]. The mob of gentlemen. Pope, Epis. Hor. Ep. I. Book II. 108.
Parnell. Thomas Parnell, 1679–1717. He was a friend of Swift and of Pope.
Prior. Matthew Prior, 1664–1721.
[374]. Blair. Robert Blair, 1699–1746. The Grave, 1743.
Ambrose Philips’s Pastorals. These appeared in Tonson’s Miscellany (1709). Ambrose Philips’s dates are ? 1675–1749. He has his place in The Dunciad.
[375]. Mallet. David Mallet, 1700–1765, is best remembered for his fusion of two old ballads into his William and Margaret, and for his possible authorship of Rule Britannia.
Less is meant. Cf. Milton’s Il Penseroso, 120.
[378]. Thoughts that glow [breathe]. Gray’s Progress of Poesy, 110.
Lord Thurlow. Edward, second Lord Thurlow (1781–1829), a nephew of the Lord Chancellor, published Verses on Several Occasions (1812), Ariadne (1814), and other volumes of poems.