ESSAY XXII. ON GREAT AND LITTLE THINGS
Published in The New Monthly Magazine (1822), vol. IV. p. 127, under the title of ‘Table Talk No. II.’
‘These little things,’ etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, l. 42. [227]. ‘Some trick not worth an egg.’ Coriolanus, Act IV. Scene 4. Paper in the Tatler. No. 79 (by Steele).
‘We put on Berenice’s hair,
And sit in Cassiopeia’s chair.’
Dixon’s Canidia, or The Witches.
‘Ariadne’s crowne and Cassiopeia’s chayre.’
Randolph’s Poems, 1640, p. 14.
‘Not Berenice’s locks first rose so bright.’
Pope, Rape of the Lock, v. 129.