Lord Stanhope. Charles, Earl Stanhope (1753–1816). He was a strenuous supporter of republican ideals and a man of many inventions.
The Orson of debate. The bear-suckled hero of the fifteenth century romance, Valentine and Orson, otherwise the Wild Man of France.
A Satyr that comes staring from the woods. Earl of Roscommon, translation of Horace’s Ars Poetica, 281–2. Cf. Ars Poetica, 244, et seq.
Lord Eldon. See ante, note to p. 158.
[216]. Gave him good œillades. See ante, note to p. 183.
Foote’s Farce of Taste. 1752.
[218]. All tranquillity and smiles. Cowper, The Task, IV. 49.
[219]. Of mimic statesmen. Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 309–10.
God Almighty’s gentleman. Dryden’s Absolom and Achitophel, Part I. 645.
G—— D——. George Dyer (1755–1841), miscellaneous writer. See Lamb’s Amicus Redivivus, Elia, ed. Ainger, p. 281.