FOOTNOTES:[1]Coats of mail.[2]Fire.[3]king.[4]rowed.[5]build.[6]fine.[7]birth.[8]Romans.[9]loyalty.[10]peace.[11]traitor.[12]hides.[13]seemliest.[14]bondage.[15]lucky.[16]chance.[17]I wot, I know.[18]dirty.[19]blue.[20]foaming.[21]approach.[22]destroyed.[23]smell.[24]cucumbers.[25]each one.[26]wonder.[27]yearned.[28]Sultan.[29]any.[30]raised.[31]Cheddar.[32]rain.[33]suitable.[34]rocks.[35]faintness.[36]seized.[37]as.[38]realm.[39]commenced.[40]one.[41]both.[42]are.[43]parted.[44]Dryden wrote before the metrical importance of the finalewas understood.[45]inlaid.[46]gems.[47]gleaming.[48]lily.[49]frosted.[50]shivered.[51]eyes.[52]hollow.[53]moisture.[54]blue.[55]out over.[56]gray.[57]tangled.[58]attire.[59]withered dress.[60]sheaf.[61]arrows.[62]feathered.[63]once.[64]drawn.[65]wasteful wants.[66]cassock.[67]nonce.[68]deceiver.[69]grinned.[70]groans.[71]broil.[72]bear.[73]blood.[74]arbor.[75]living person.[76]play.[77]blow.[78]died.[79]feeding.[80]tribute.[81]slime.[82]prepare.[83]The Shepherd’s Calendar(1579).[84]Polyolbion(1612).[85]Tamburlaine(1587).[86]Love’s Labour’s Lost(1594).[87]Every Man in his Humour(1598).[88]Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity(1593).[89]Essays(1597).[90]Anatomy of Melancholy(1621).[91]Mammon.[92]carving.[93]ore.[94]hammered.[95]ingots.[96]utterly wasted.[97]peeled.[98]The passage containing this reference appears on pp.142–143.[99]This piece is sometimes ascribed toWilliam Browne(1588–1643.)[100]Peele.[101]Nash and Marlowe.[102]The Induction(1555).[103]Tottel’s Miscellany(1557).[104]The Steel Glass(1576).[105]The Shepherd’s Calendar(1579).[106]Plutarch’sLives(1579).[107]The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity(1593).[108]Venus and Adonis(1593).[109]Essays(1597).[110]Characters(1614).[111]rejoice.[112]bride.[113]bulged.[114]peel.[115]The Cave of Despair.[116]Poetical Blossoms(1633).[117]Noble Numbers(1647).[118]Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(1629).[119]Paradise Lost(1658).[120]Religio Medici(1642).[121]The History of the Great Rebellion(1646).[122]Holy Living(1650).[123]The Leviathan(1651).[124]Of St. Theresa.[125]Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(1629).[126]Religio Medici(1642).[127]The History of the Great Rebellion(1646).[128]Holy Living(1650).[129]Paradise Lost(1658).[130]Samson Agonistes(1671).[131]1802.[132]Astræa Redux(1660).[133]Hudibras(1663).[134]The Old Bachelor(1693).[135]The Pilgrim’s Progress(1678).[136]His dedications, etc.[137]Religio Laici(1682).[138]The Hind and the Panther(1687).[139]Don Sebastian(1690).[140]Alexander’s Feast(1697).[141]Fables(1700).[142]The Rape of the Lock(1712).[143]The Complaint, or Night Thoughts(1742).[144]Gulliver’s Travels(1726).[145]The Spectator(1711).[146]Robinson Crusoe(1719).[147]Sir Leslie Stephen.[148]The Funeral(1701).[149]The Review(1704).[150]The Campaign(1704).[151]The Battle of the Books(1704).[152]Pastorals(1709).[153]The Coverley essays.[154]The Tatler(1709).[155]An Essay on Criticism(1711).[156]Cato(1713).[157]Robinson Crusoe(1719).[158]Gulliver’s Travels(1726).[159]The Dunciad(1728).[160]Elkanah Settle (see p.207).[161]Lord John Hervey.[162]The Seasons(1730).[163]Elegy written in a Country Churchyard(1751).[164]Poems(Kilmarnock edition, 1786).[165]Pamela(1740).[166]Tom Jones(1749).[167]The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776).[168]vomited.[169]Mount Pindus, sacred to the Muses. Hence, a poet’s dream.[170]That is, “the blind one.” A reference to Milton’s blindness.[171]share.[172]rinse.[173]London(1738).[174]Pamela(1740).[175]Joseph Andrew(1742).[176]The Castle of Indolence(1748).[177]The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749).[178]Irene(1749).[179]The Rambler(1750).[180]Elegy written in a Country Churchyard(1751).[181]Rasselas(1759).[182]The Rosciad(1761).[183]The Traveller(1764).[184]The Vicar of Wakefield(1766).[185]The Good-natured Man(1768).[186]The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776).[187]The Task(1785).[188]The Devil.[189]going last.[190]perhaps.[191]Lyrical Ballads(1798).[192]Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1812).[193]Endymion(1818).[194]The Lay of the Last Minstrel(1805).[195]Waverley(1814).[196]Northanger Abbey(1798).[197]The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater(1821).[198]Lyrical Ballads(1798).[199]Northanger Abbey(1798).[200]The Watchman(1796).[201]The Lay of the Last Minstrel(1805).[202]Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1812).[203]Queen Mab(1813).[204]Waverley(1814).[205]Manfred(1817).[206]Endymion(1818).[207]Biographia Literaria(1817).[208]Don Juan(1819).[209]The Cenci(1819).[210]The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater(1821).[211]The Essays of Elia(1823).[212]The Life of Byron(1830).[213]The Life of Scott(1837).[214]The Borderers(1842).[215]Poems(1832).[216]Pauline(1833).[217]The Pickwick Papers(1836).[218]Vanity Fair(1847).[219]The Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859).[220]Sartor Resartus(1833).[221]Essay on Milton(1825).[222]The Seven Lamps of Architecture(1849).[223]Such a passage appears on p.513.[224]Coleridge.[225]Poems(1832).[226]Poems(1833).[227]Sartor Resartus(1833).[228]Pauline(1833).[229]The Pickwick Papers(1836).[230]Dramatic Lyrics(1842).[231]The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon(1842).[232]Modern Painters(1843).[233]The Return of the Druses(1843).[234]The Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859).[235]Chastelard(1865).[236]Queen Mary(1875).[237]An extract will be found on p.565.[238]irons.[239]rope.[240]mouth.[241]Poetry[242]Prose[243]Stopped.[244]Loose.[245]English form.[246]Italian form.
[1]Coats of mail.
[1]Coats of mail.
[2]Fire.
[2]Fire.
[3]king.
[3]king.
[4]rowed.
[4]rowed.
[5]build.
[5]build.
[6]fine.
[6]fine.
[7]birth.
[7]birth.
[8]Romans.
[8]Romans.
[9]loyalty.
[9]loyalty.
[10]peace.
[10]peace.
[11]traitor.
[11]traitor.
[12]hides.
[12]hides.
[13]seemliest.
[13]seemliest.
[14]bondage.
[14]bondage.
[15]lucky.
[15]lucky.
[16]chance.
[16]chance.
[17]I wot, I know.
[17]I wot, I know.
[18]dirty.
[18]dirty.
[19]blue.
[19]blue.
[20]foaming.
[20]foaming.
[21]approach.
[21]approach.
[22]destroyed.
[22]destroyed.
[23]smell.
[23]smell.
[24]cucumbers.
[24]cucumbers.
[25]each one.
[25]each one.
[26]wonder.
[26]wonder.
[27]yearned.
[27]yearned.
[28]Sultan.
[28]Sultan.
[29]any.
[29]any.
[30]raised.
[30]raised.
[31]Cheddar.
[31]Cheddar.
[32]rain.
[32]rain.
[33]suitable.
[33]suitable.
[34]rocks.
[34]rocks.
[35]faintness.
[35]faintness.
[36]seized.
[36]seized.
[37]as.
[37]as.
[38]realm.
[38]realm.
[39]commenced.
[39]commenced.
[40]one.
[40]one.
[41]both.
[41]both.
[42]are.
[42]are.
[43]parted.
[43]parted.
[44]Dryden wrote before the metrical importance of the finalewas understood.
[44]Dryden wrote before the metrical importance of the finalewas understood.
[45]inlaid.
[45]inlaid.
[46]gems.
[46]gems.
[47]gleaming.
[47]gleaming.
[48]lily.
[48]lily.
[49]frosted.
[49]frosted.
[50]shivered.
[50]shivered.
[51]eyes.
[51]eyes.
[52]hollow.
[52]hollow.
[53]moisture.
[53]moisture.
[54]blue.
[54]blue.
[55]out over.
[55]out over.
[56]gray.
[56]gray.
[57]tangled.
[57]tangled.
[58]attire.
[58]attire.
[59]withered dress.
[59]withered dress.
[60]sheaf.
[60]sheaf.
[61]arrows.
[61]arrows.
[62]feathered.
[62]feathered.
[63]once.
[63]once.
[64]drawn.
[64]drawn.
[65]wasteful wants.
[65]wasteful wants.
[66]cassock.
[66]cassock.
[67]nonce.
[67]nonce.
[68]deceiver.
[68]deceiver.
[69]grinned.
[69]grinned.
[70]groans.
[70]groans.
[71]broil.
[71]broil.
[72]bear.
[72]bear.
[73]blood.
[73]blood.
[74]arbor.
[74]arbor.
[75]living person.
[75]living person.
[76]play.
[76]play.
[77]blow.
[77]blow.
[78]died.
[78]died.
[79]feeding.
[79]feeding.
[80]tribute.
[80]tribute.
[81]slime.
[81]slime.
[82]prepare.
[82]prepare.
[83]The Shepherd’s Calendar(1579).
[83]The Shepherd’s Calendar(1579).
[84]Polyolbion(1612).
[84]Polyolbion(1612).
[85]Tamburlaine(1587).
[85]Tamburlaine(1587).
[86]Love’s Labour’s Lost(1594).
[86]Love’s Labour’s Lost(1594).
[87]Every Man in his Humour(1598).
[87]Every Man in his Humour(1598).
[88]Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity(1593).
[88]Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity(1593).
[89]Essays(1597).
[89]Essays(1597).
[90]Anatomy of Melancholy(1621).
[90]Anatomy of Melancholy(1621).
[91]Mammon.
[91]Mammon.
[92]carving.
[92]carving.
[93]ore.
[93]ore.
[94]hammered.
[94]hammered.
[95]ingots.
[95]ingots.
[96]utterly wasted.
[96]utterly wasted.
[97]peeled.
[97]peeled.
[98]The passage containing this reference appears on pp.142–143.
[98]The passage containing this reference appears on pp.142–143.
[99]This piece is sometimes ascribed toWilliam Browne(1588–1643.)
[99]This piece is sometimes ascribed toWilliam Browne(1588–1643.)
[100]Peele.
[100]Peele.
[101]Nash and Marlowe.
[101]Nash and Marlowe.
[102]The Induction(1555).
[102]The Induction(1555).
[103]Tottel’s Miscellany(1557).
[103]Tottel’s Miscellany(1557).
[104]The Steel Glass(1576).
[104]The Steel Glass(1576).
[105]The Shepherd’s Calendar(1579).
[105]The Shepherd’s Calendar(1579).
[106]Plutarch’sLives(1579).
[106]Plutarch’sLives(1579).
[107]The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity(1593).
[107]The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity(1593).
[108]Venus and Adonis(1593).
[108]Venus and Adonis(1593).
[109]Essays(1597).
[109]Essays(1597).
[110]Characters(1614).
[110]Characters(1614).
[111]rejoice.
[111]rejoice.
[112]bride.
[112]bride.
[113]bulged.
[113]bulged.
[114]peel.
[114]peel.
[115]The Cave of Despair.
[115]The Cave of Despair.
[116]Poetical Blossoms(1633).
[116]Poetical Blossoms(1633).
[117]Noble Numbers(1647).
[117]Noble Numbers(1647).
[118]Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(1629).
[118]Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(1629).
[119]Paradise Lost(1658).
[119]Paradise Lost(1658).
[120]Religio Medici(1642).
[120]Religio Medici(1642).
[121]The History of the Great Rebellion(1646).
[121]The History of the Great Rebellion(1646).
[122]Holy Living(1650).
[122]Holy Living(1650).
[123]The Leviathan(1651).
[123]The Leviathan(1651).
[124]Of St. Theresa.
[124]Of St. Theresa.
[125]Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(1629).
[125]Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(1629).
[126]Religio Medici(1642).
[126]Religio Medici(1642).
[127]The History of the Great Rebellion(1646).
[127]The History of the Great Rebellion(1646).
[128]Holy Living(1650).
[128]Holy Living(1650).
[129]Paradise Lost(1658).
[129]Paradise Lost(1658).
[130]Samson Agonistes(1671).
[130]Samson Agonistes(1671).
[131]1802.
[131]1802.
[132]Astræa Redux(1660).
[132]Astræa Redux(1660).
[133]Hudibras(1663).
[133]Hudibras(1663).
[134]The Old Bachelor(1693).
[134]The Old Bachelor(1693).
[135]The Pilgrim’s Progress(1678).
[135]The Pilgrim’s Progress(1678).
[136]His dedications, etc.
[136]His dedications, etc.
[137]Religio Laici(1682).
[137]Religio Laici(1682).
[138]The Hind and the Panther(1687).
[138]The Hind and the Panther(1687).
[139]Don Sebastian(1690).
[139]Don Sebastian(1690).
[140]Alexander’s Feast(1697).
[140]Alexander’s Feast(1697).
[141]Fables(1700).
[141]Fables(1700).
[142]The Rape of the Lock(1712).
[142]The Rape of the Lock(1712).
[143]The Complaint, or Night Thoughts(1742).
[143]The Complaint, or Night Thoughts(1742).
[144]Gulliver’s Travels(1726).
[144]Gulliver’s Travels(1726).
[145]The Spectator(1711).
[145]The Spectator(1711).
[146]Robinson Crusoe(1719).
[146]Robinson Crusoe(1719).
[147]Sir Leslie Stephen.
[147]Sir Leslie Stephen.
[148]The Funeral(1701).
[148]The Funeral(1701).
[149]The Review(1704).
[149]The Review(1704).
[150]The Campaign(1704).
[150]The Campaign(1704).
[151]The Battle of the Books(1704).
[151]The Battle of the Books(1704).
[152]Pastorals(1709).
[152]Pastorals(1709).
[153]The Coverley essays.
[153]The Coverley essays.
[154]The Tatler(1709).
[154]The Tatler(1709).
[155]An Essay on Criticism(1711).
[155]An Essay on Criticism(1711).
[156]Cato(1713).
[156]Cato(1713).
[157]Robinson Crusoe(1719).
[157]Robinson Crusoe(1719).
[158]Gulliver’s Travels(1726).
[158]Gulliver’s Travels(1726).
[159]The Dunciad(1728).
[159]The Dunciad(1728).
[160]Elkanah Settle (see p.207).
[160]Elkanah Settle (see p.207).
[161]Lord John Hervey.
[161]Lord John Hervey.
[162]The Seasons(1730).
[162]The Seasons(1730).
[163]Elegy written in a Country Churchyard(1751).
[163]Elegy written in a Country Churchyard(1751).
[164]Poems(Kilmarnock edition, 1786).
[164]Poems(Kilmarnock edition, 1786).
[165]Pamela(1740).
[165]Pamela(1740).
[166]Tom Jones(1749).
[166]Tom Jones(1749).
[167]The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776).
[167]The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776).
[168]vomited.
[168]vomited.
[169]Mount Pindus, sacred to the Muses. Hence, a poet’s dream.
[169]Mount Pindus, sacred to the Muses. Hence, a poet’s dream.
[170]That is, “the blind one.” A reference to Milton’s blindness.
[170]That is, “the blind one.” A reference to Milton’s blindness.
[171]share.
[171]share.
[172]rinse.
[172]rinse.
[173]London(1738).
[173]London(1738).
[174]Pamela(1740).
[174]Pamela(1740).
[175]Joseph Andrew(1742).
[175]Joseph Andrew(1742).
[176]The Castle of Indolence(1748).
[176]The Castle of Indolence(1748).
[177]The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749).
[177]The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749).
[178]Irene(1749).
[178]Irene(1749).
[179]The Rambler(1750).
[179]The Rambler(1750).
[180]Elegy written in a Country Churchyard(1751).
[180]Elegy written in a Country Churchyard(1751).
[181]Rasselas(1759).
[181]Rasselas(1759).
[182]The Rosciad(1761).
[182]The Rosciad(1761).
[183]The Traveller(1764).
[183]The Traveller(1764).
[184]The Vicar of Wakefield(1766).
[184]The Vicar of Wakefield(1766).
[185]The Good-natured Man(1768).
[185]The Good-natured Man(1768).
[186]The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776).
[186]The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1776).
[187]The Task(1785).
[187]The Task(1785).
[188]The Devil.
[188]The Devil.
[189]going last.
[189]going last.
[190]perhaps.
[190]perhaps.
[191]Lyrical Ballads(1798).
[191]Lyrical Ballads(1798).
[192]Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1812).
[192]Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1812).
[193]Endymion(1818).
[193]Endymion(1818).
[194]The Lay of the Last Minstrel(1805).
[194]The Lay of the Last Minstrel(1805).
[195]Waverley(1814).
[195]Waverley(1814).
[196]Northanger Abbey(1798).
[196]Northanger Abbey(1798).
[197]The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater(1821).
[197]The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater(1821).
[198]Lyrical Ballads(1798).
[198]Lyrical Ballads(1798).
[199]Northanger Abbey(1798).
[199]Northanger Abbey(1798).
[200]The Watchman(1796).
[200]The Watchman(1796).
[201]The Lay of the Last Minstrel(1805).
[201]The Lay of the Last Minstrel(1805).
[202]Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1812).
[202]Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1812).
[203]Queen Mab(1813).
[203]Queen Mab(1813).
[204]Waverley(1814).
[204]Waverley(1814).
[205]Manfred(1817).
[205]Manfred(1817).
[206]Endymion(1818).
[206]Endymion(1818).
[207]Biographia Literaria(1817).
[207]Biographia Literaria(1817).
[208]Don Juan(1819).
[208]Don Juan(1819).
[209]The Cenci(1819).
[209]The Cenci(1819).
[210]The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater(1821).
[210]The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater(1821).
[211]The Essays of Elia(1823).
[211]The Essays of Elia(1823).
[212]The Life of Byron(1830).
[212]The Life of Byron(1830).
[213]The Life of Scott(1837).
[213]The Life of Scott(1837).
[214]The Borderers(1842).
[214]The Borderers(1842).
[215]Poems(1832).
[215]Poems(1832).
[216]Pauline(1833).
[216]Pauline(1833).
[217]The Pickwick Papers(1836).
[217]The Pickwick Papers(1836).
[218]Vanity Fair(1847).
[218]Vanity Fair(1847).
[219]The Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859).
[219]The Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859).
[220]Sartor Resartus(1833).
[220]Sartor Resartus(1833).
[221]Essay on Milton(1825).
[221]Essay on Milton(1825).
[222]The Seven Lamps of Architecture(1849).
[222]The Seven Lamps of Architecture(1849).
[223]Such a passage appears on p.513.
[223]Such a passage appears on p.513.
[224]Coleridge.
[224]Coleridge.
[225]Poems(1832).
[225]Poems(1832).
[226]Poems(1833).
[226]Poems(1833).
[227]Sartor Resartus(1833).
[227]Sartor Resartus(1833).
[228]Pauline(1833).
[228]Pauline(1833).
[229]The Pickwick Papers(1836).
[229]The Pickwick Papers(1836).
[230]Dramatic Lyrics(1842).
[230]Dramatic Lyrics(1842).
[231]The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon(1842).
[231]The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon(1842).
[232]Modern Painters(1843).
[232]Modern Painters(1843).
[233]The Return of the Druses(1843).
[233]The Return of the Druses(1843).
[234]The Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859).
[234]The Ordeal of Richard Feverel(1859).
[235]Chastelard(1865).
[235]Chastelard(1865).
[236]Queen Mary(1875).
[236]Queen Mary(1875).
[237]An extract will be found on p.565.
[237]An extract will be found on p.565.
[238]irons.
[238]irons.
[239]rope.
[239]rope.
[240]mouth.
[240]mouth.
[241]Poetry
[241]Poetry
[242]Prose
[242]Prose
[243]Stopped.
[243]Stopped.
[244]Loose.
[244]Loose.
[245]English form.
[245]English form.
[246]Italian form.
[246]Italian form.
Transcriber’s Notes:1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.