Secretary to the Venetian Ambassador. Rousseau was Secretary to the French Ambassador to Venice, M. de Montaign, from August 1743 to August 1744.
Milton’s house. See ante, note to p. [232].
Mr. Washington Irvine. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, p. 311 and note.
[284]. Mr. Hobhouse ... Westminster. John Cam Hobhouse was elected M.P. for Westminster in 1820.
[285]. Upland swells. ‘The grassy uplands’ gentle swells.’ Coleridge, Ode to the Departing Year, 125.
The peasant’s nest. Cowper, The Task, I. 227 and 247.
[287]. Oh! for a lodge in some vast wilderness. Cowper, The Task, II. 2: [contiguity].
And disappointed still.
Cf. ‘And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed.’