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 final e was 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.
[99] This piece is sometimes ascribed to William 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’s Lives (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).
[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).
[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).
[238] irons.
[239] rope.
[240] mouth.
[241] Poetry
[242] Prose
[243] Stopped.
[244] Loose.
[245] English 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.