Warton. Thomas Warton (1728–1790), author of The History of English Poetry (1774–1781). The same sonnet is quoted in vol. V. Lectures on the English Poets, p. 120.
[318]. Della-Cruscan. See vol. V. Lectures on the English Poets, note to p. 148.
Calm pleasures there abide, majestic pains. Wordsworth’s Laodamia.
Earth destroys those raptures. Ibid.
[319]. Even to the crack of doom. Macbeth, IV. 1.
Poor Peter Peebles. The litigious drunkard in Redgauntlet.
The last and almost worst of them. Redgauntlet was published in 1824.
Nanty Ewart. Captain of the smuggler’s brig in Redgauntlet.
And her whose foot. Redgauntlet, Book II. chap. viii.
Old true-penny. Cf. ‘Art thou there, true-penny?’ etc. Hamlet, I. 5.