[85]. Pope: Eloisa to Abelard, l. 74.
[86]. Roger de Piles (1635–1709), painter and voluminous writer on art.
[87]. Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy (1611–1665), French painter and writer of a poem on the art of painting.
[88]. Benjamin West (1738–1820) succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 as President.
[89]. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 550.
[90]. Essay on Criticism, III. 66.
[91]. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 42.
[92]. See a letter in The Champion, September 25, 1814. [W. H.]
[93]. Occasional assistance may be derived from both, but, in general, we must trust to our own strength. We cannot hope to become rich by living upon alms. Constant assistance is the worst incumbrance. The accumulation of models, and erection of universal schools for art, improved the genius of the student much in the same way that the encouragement of night-cellars and gin-shops improves the health and morals of the people. [W. H.]
[94]. Pope, Moral Essays, III. 338.