[8] Compare the Notes on the Metamorphoses, Fab. v. (Tickell’s edition, vol. vi. p. 183), where the substance of the above passage is found in embryo.
[9] Dunciad, Book iv. 224.
[10] Compare Spectator, 414. “I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my part I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, rather than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the finished parterre.”
[11] Letter to the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Esq., Blois, 10br 1699.
[12] Letter from Italy to Lord Halifax.
[13] Addison’s Works (Tickell’s edition), vol. v. p. 301.
[14] Addison’s Works (Tickell’s edition), vol. v. p. 213.
[15] Oldham’s Satire Dissuading from Poetry.
[16] Oldham’s Satire Dissuading from Poetry.
[17] Blackmore, The Kit-Kats.