Angelica Kauffman. Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807), a Swiss painter of (chiefly) female characters, many of which were engraved by Bartolozzi.
[165]. Arkwright. Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792).
[166]. A cell of ignorance. Cymbeline, III. 3.
The only great man in modern times. Napoleon, of course. He died on May 5, 1821, of cancer in the stomach.
Mandeville. Bernard Mandeville (1670?–1733) author of The Fable of the Bees (1714).
[167]. Forget the things that are behind. Philippians, iii. 13.
[168]. Nothing is but what is not. Macbeth, I. 3.
Goldsmith was ever jealous of beauty in the other sex. See ante, p. 100.
Through listening [wond’ring] senates. Pope’s Moral Essays, I. 184–5.