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157. _Inigo Jones._ The architect of Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, the banqueting-house at Whitehall, St. Paul’s Church, Covent-Garden, etc. (1573–1652).

_The famous passage in Burke._ _A Letter to a Noble Lord_ (_Works_, Bohn, V. 137).

_Mr. Jerdan._ William Jerdan (1782–1869), editor of the Tory _Sun_ (1813–1817), and then associated for many years with the _Literary Gazette_.

_The painful warrior._ Shakespeare, Sonnet XXV.

159. _What though the radiance._ Wordsworth, _Ode, Intimations of Immortality_ [taken from my sight.... Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.]

_The burden and the mystery._ Wordsworth’s _Tintern Abbey_.

_The worst ... returns to good._ Cf. ‘the worst returns to laughter,’ _King Lear_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

_And bring with thee_ [and add to these] _retired Leisure_. _Il Penseroso_, 49.

_Nature to advantage drest._ Pope, _Essay on Criticism_, Part II. 97.

_Paradise of dainty devices._ The name given to a collection of poems published 1576 and various times later.

_The Frenchman’s darling._ Cowper, _The Task_, IV. 765.

161. _With glistering spires._ _Paradise Lost_, III. 550.

_Low farms and_ [poor] _pelting villages_. _King Lear_, Act II. Sc. 3.

162. _But let thy spiders._ _King Richard II._, Act III. Sc. 2 [treacherous feet ... thy sovereign’s enemies].

_Bear the beating of so strong a passion._ _Twelfth Night_, Act II. Sc. 4.

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