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281. _In spite of Mr. Burke’s philippic._ _A Letter to a member of the National Assembly_, 1791.

_Mr. Moore’s late Rhymes on the Road._ See vol. VII. _The Plain Speaker_, p. 365, _et seq._

_Mais vois la rapidité de cet astre._ _La Nouvelle Héloïse_, Première Partie, Lettre XXVI.

282. _Forbade us to interpret them such._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 3.

_Simplex munditiis._ Horace, _Odes_ I. 5.

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283. _The pauper lad._ See vol. VII. _The Plain Speaker_, pp. 366–7.

_Fables for the Holy Alliance._ Published 1823.

_Secretary to the Venetian Ambassador._ Rousseau was Secretary to the French Ambassador to Venice, M. de Montaign, from August 1743 to August 1744.

_Milton’s house._ See _ante_, note to p. 232.

_Mr. Washington Irvine._ See vol. VII. _The Plain Speaker_, p. 311 and note.

284. _Mr. Hobhouse ... Westminster._ John Cam Hobhouse was elected M.P. for Westminster in 1820.

285. _Upland swells._ ‘The grassy uplands’ gentle swells.’ Coleridge, _Ode to the Departing Year_, 125.

_The peasant’s nest._ Cowper, _The Task_, I. 227 and 247.

287. _Oh! for a lodge in some vast wilderness._ Cowper, _The Task_, II. 2: [contiguity].

_And disappointed still._

Cf. ‘And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed.’
Cowper, _The Task_, III. 127.

_But the season’s difference._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_Apparent queen_ [of night]. _Paradise Lost_, IV. 608.