The article ends with the words:—‘Blenheim in our next, which will conclude this series of articles.’
Note. The author of Vathek. William Beckford (1759–1844), whose romance was written in French in 1781–1782, translated anonymously into English in 1784, and published in French in 1787.
[57]. Ranged in a row. ‘Ranged o’er the chimney, glistened in a row,’ Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 236.
[58]. Keep their state. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Sc. 2.
Burke’s description of the age of chivalry. Reflections on the Revolution in France, Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 89.
The mood of lutes [flutes]. Paradise Lost, Book I. 551.
Mount on barbed steeds, etc. Cf. ‘Mounting barbed steeds.’ King Richard III., Act I. Sc. 1. and,
‘Witch the world with noble horsemanship.’
1 King Henry IV., Act IV. Sc. 1.
The Goose Gibbie. See Old Mortality.