PAGE 180. Motto. Another extract from Winterton's Poetae Minores No. 447, Graeci (p. 469). It is a fragment of Evenus Parius. -Dr. Robert Plot published his Natural History of Staffordshire in folio in 1686. He was the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. PAGE 181. One of the greatest Geniuses this Age has produced. Dr. -Optimum, etc. Probably from some Latin version of the 8th PAGE 182. Said Hesiod. Said Hesiod. Works and Days, i. 287-288. PAGE 183. Dr. Scott. John Scott, D.D., Canon of Windsor (died 1694), author of a popular book, The Christian Life. The first edition appeared in 1681 and the ninth in 1712. PAGE 184. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. ii. 82. No. 448. PAGE 188. Motto. Martial, Epigr. iii. lxviii. 1. No. 449. PAGE 191. Scabbard Rusty's letter may be read in connection with PAGE 191. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. i. 53-4. No. 450. Ephraim Weed's letter is Steele's satirical sequel to his proposal in No. 442 (ante, p. 167). PAGE 192. A Plumb-i.e. £100,000. PAGE 197. PAGE 198. Motto. Horace, Epist. II. i. 148-150. PAGE 199. Billingsgate. Cf. No. 247 (iii. 290 and 323). Words of Monsieur Bayle. See the Dissertation upon De famatory Libels in the Dictionary (vol. X. p. 330 et seq.). No. 451, PAGE 201. Motto. Pliny the Elder, Nat. Hist. xii. 5. Addison No. 452. quotes it from Lilly's Latin Grammar ('Brevissima Institutio') where (p. 76, ed. Cambridge, 1681) it is cited in illustration of the genitive after certain adjectives. Cf. vol. iii. p. 319. PAGE 202. Any Haberdasher in Cheapside. Cf. vol. i. p. 181, and note. PAGE 203. Pankridge-i.e. Pancras, the 'St. George's, Hanover PAGE 205. Motto. Horace, Odes, II. xx. 1-2. Pieces of Divine Poetry. Ante, Nos. 378 (v. 224), 388 (v. 258), 410 (vi. 54), and 441 (vi. 163). PAGE 208. And in a kind and faithful Friend. Editors persist in seeing in this a pretty reference by Addison to his colleague: or, as Mr. H. Morley put it, "was it not Steele whom he felt near to him at the Mercy-seat?" See Motto. Terence, Heautontimorumenos. I. i. 38-9. "Oh! my Kissinda! Oh! how sweet art thou? PAGE 21I. A Silk-Worm. Shower (Tatler, No. 238): Cf. Swift in his Description of a City "To Shops in Crowds the daggled Females fly, No. 453. No. 454. No. 454, No. 455, No. 456. No. 457. No. 458. No. 459. No. 460, No. 461. or, in better illustration, as Mr. Dobson has pointed out :- Or promising with smiles to call again."(Cowper's Task, VI.) PAGE 212. PAGE 217. Mr. William Penkethman. See note in vol. i. p. 326. PAGE 222. I pass'd, etc. Otway's Venice Preserved, I. i. See Swift's Mr. Dyer, Mr. Dawkes. See note in vol. i. p. 333; and cf. Anthony Alsop's Ode (Nichols, Lit. Anecd. I. 3)— Quid habent novorum Dawksque Dyerque, and Tatler, No. 18 :-"I remember Mr. Dyer, who is justly look'd upon by all the Fox-hunters in the Nation as the greatest Statesman our Country has produced, was particularly famous for dealing in Whales; insomuch that in Five Months time (for I had the curiosity to examine his Letters on that Occasion) he brought three into the Mouth of the River Thames, besides Two Porpusses and a Sturgeon. The judicious and wary Mr. I. Dawks hath all along been the rival of this great Writer, and got himself a Reputation from Plagues and Famines, by which, in those days, he destroyed as great multitudes as he has just lately done by the Sword. In every Dearth of News, Grand Cairo was sure to be unpeopled." PAGE 223. Garraway's. See note vol. i. p. 310. PAGE 225. Mottos. The first, which does not appear in A, is from Xenophanes. Taken from Plutarch's Morals (' Of Bashfulness'). In A. it is printed Xenophon, in error. PAGE 228. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. iv. 5. An excellent author. The reference may be to Tillotson, with whom this sentiment was something of a favourite. -Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 25. The allegorical sketch is said to be by Thomas Parnell. PAGE 235. A certain enormity. Cf. ante, Nos. 259, 270, 344, etc. -Motto. Virgil, Eclog. ix. 34. PAGE 238. The author of this hymn is Dr. Isaac Watts. PAGE 239. An halfpenny value. The price was raised to 2d., or double the original price. Half of the increase was paid to Government under the new Stamp Act (ante, p. 294). The advertisements in the earlier numbers (A.) give point to the jocular Postscript, for there are frequent insertions regarding No. 462. 'The famous Spanish Blacking for Gentlemen's Shoes,' and 'The No. 461. famous Bavarian Red Liquor, which gives a delightful_blushing Colour to the Cheeks of those that are White or Pale.' PAGE 240. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. v. 44. PAGE 242. Stocks-Market. See note on p. 295. The statue had a curious history. It is said to have originally represented Sobieski ahorse over the conquered Turk, but it was converted into the effigy of the Merry Monarch subduing Oliver Cromwell, who, by ludicrous carelessness, still wore the turban of the eastern potentate (cf. Stowe's Survey of London, Bk. II. p. 199, ed. 1720). Cf. the following passage in the Tatler (No. 18)"Had I not come by the other Day very early in the Morning, there might have been Mischief done; for a worthy North-Britain was swearing at Stocks-market, that they would not let him in at his Ludgings; but I knowing the Gentleman, and observing him look often at the King on Horse-back, and then double his Oaths, that he was sure he was right found he mistook that for CharingCross, by the erection of the like Statue in each Place." The statue was removed about 1735, to make way for the erection of the present Mansion-House on the site of Stocks-market. A great Hand. Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. PAGE 243. Motto. Claudian, xxvii. (De Sexto Consulatu Honorii No. 463. Homer, Iliad, viii. 69; Virgil, Æn. xii. 725. PAGE 245. A saying among the Scotch. All the editions omit -Wit.' PAGE 246. A twopenny-piece. See note to p. 239. Tekel. Daniel v. 27. PAGE 247. Motto. Horace, Odes, II. x. 5-8. PAGE 248. PAGE 250. There was a little City. Ecclesiastes ix. 14-16. A Play by Aristophanes. The Plutus. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xviii. 97-9. PAGE 253. Psalm xix. 1-4. PAGE 254. Motto. Virgil, Æn. i. 409. No. 464. No. 465. No. 466, Admirer as I am. Cf. Nos. 66. 67, 334, 370, 376. Anagrams and Acrostics. Cf. No. 60. Mr. Prince. See B. I. PAGE 257. Mr. Weaver. See No. 334 (v. p. 52 and note, p. 290). PAGE 259. This paper has been ascribed to John Hughes, and Chalmers PAGE 263, Motto. Pliny, Epist. III. xxi. 1. VI. Poor Dick Eastcourt. See vol. i. p. 317, iv. 292; also v. U No, 467, No. 468, No. 468, No. 469. No. 470, No. 471, 152, 200. PAGE 266. Bullfinch, in Richard Brome's Northern Lass. Ante, vol Pounce, the lawyer in Steele's comedy, The Tender Husband, or, the Accomplished Fools. The following paragraph appears in A., after 'go on "It is a felicity his friends may rejoyce in, that he had his Senses, and used them as he ought to do, in his last Moments. It is remarkable, that his Judgment was in its calm Perfection to the utmost Article; for when his Wife, out of her Fondness, desired that she might send for a certain illiterate Humourist (whom he had accompanied in a thousand mirthful Moments, and whose Insolence makes Fools think he assumes from conscious Merit) he answered, 'Do what you please, but he won't come near me.' Let poor Eastcourt's Negligence about this Message, convince the unwary of a triumphant Empyrick's Ignorance and Inhumanity. This attack is said to have been levelled against the eccentric Dr. Radcliffe (founder of the infirmary and Radcliffe Library at Oxford), whose careless manner was matter of public scandal. PAGE 267. Motto. Cicero, De Officiis, iii. 5. PAGE 269. Motto. Martial, Epigr. II. lxxxvi. 9-10. Following song is an-" Following song, which, by the PAGE 272. Motto. Euripides, Ino, Fragment 7. Ελπεσθαι χρὴ πάντ ̓ ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἔστ ̓ οὐδὲν ἄελπτον. ῥᾴδια πάντα θεῷ τελέσαι, καὶ ἀρήνυτον οὐδέν. PAGE 275. No. 472. No. 473. I have set the Lord. PAGE 276. Psalm xvi. 8-11. 660-I. "My very worthy friend" (Tatler, seq. PAGE 277. Pleasures of the Imagination. Supra, pp. 56 et 77-82. PAGE 280. Dr. Grant. See B. I. Jones of Newington. See the pamphlet A Full and True Account of a Miraculous Cure of a young Man in Newington. 1709. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xix. 12-14. |