Which like a trumpet.
‘That like a trumpet made young pulses dance.’
Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto III.
Cumberland. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), the dramatist, who was sent to Spain on a diplomatic mission in 1780. See his Memoirs, 1807, vol. II. p. 78.
While groves of Eden. Pope, Windsor Forest, 7.
Mr. Ritchie. Joseph Ritchie (1788?-1819), who went out on a government expedition to Africa about 1818.
Bruce. James Bruce (1730–1794), who explored Abyssinia in 1769–1771.
Beckford. See ante, note to p. [56].
[351]. Whose price is above rubies. ‘The price of wisdom is above rubies.’ Job xxviii. 18.
[351]. The showman in Goldsmith’s comedy. She Stoops to Conquer, I.