---- Irregular Dr. Laurence 16.
---- Prettyman General Burgoyne 17.
---- Graham Mr. Reid 18.
Letter, &c. and Mount-
morres Richardson 19.
Birthday Ode George Ellis 20.
Pindaric Ode Unmarked 21.
Real Birthday Ode T. Warton 22.
Remaining prose Richardson.
I am not certain whether Mr. Adair, to whom "Margaret Nicholson," one of
the happiest of the Political Eclogues, is attributed, is the present
Sir Robert Adair. If so, as the only survivor amongst his literary
colleagues, he might furnish some interesting particulars respecting the
remarkable work to which I have called your attention.
BRAYBROOKE.
Audley End, July, 1850.
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NOTES ON MILTON.
(Continued from Vol. ii., p. 53.)
_Il Penseroso._
On l. 8 (G.):--
"Fantastic swarms of dreams there hover'd,
Green, red, and yellow, tawney, black, and blue;
They make no noise, but right resemble may
Th' unnumber'd moats that in the sun-beams play."
_Sylvester's Du Bartas._
Caelia, in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Humorous Lieutenant_, says,--
"My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous."
Act iv. Sc. 8.
On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his
argument in Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act i. Sc. 3.:--
"Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow
their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought
stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a _black cyprus_.
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