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24. _To elevate and surprise._ The Duke of Buckingham’s _The
Rehearsal_, I. 1.

44. ‘_Your very nice people_,’ _etc._ See _ante_, note to vol.
III. p. 273.

147. ‘_Where he picks clean teeth._’ Cowper, _The Task_, II. 627.

217. ‘_When he saw_,’ _etc._ Coleridge, _Remorse_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

220. _Pingo in eternitatem._ A saying attributed to Zeuxis. See
Sir Joshua Reynolds’s _Discourses_, No. III.

311. ‘_Sithence no fairy lights_,’ _etc._ See vol. XI. pp. 224,
268, and notes.

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9. ‘_And visions_,’ _etc._ See _ante_, note to vol. I. p. 112.

10. ‘_Obscurity_,’ _etc._ See vol. XI. p. 224 and note.

120. ‘_And that green wreath_,’ _etc._ Southey, _Carmen
Nuptiale_, Proem, St. 9.

215. ‘_A foot_,’ _etc._ Cf. Donne, _The Storm_, 3–4.

277. _Friar Onion._ See Boccaccio, _The Decameron_, Sixth Day,
Novel X.

280. ‘_That, like a trumpet_,’ _etc._ Cf. Leigh Hunt, _The Story
of Rimini_, Canto III.

345. ‘_The last of those fair clouds_,’ _etc._ Cf. Wordsworth,
_The Excursion_, VII. 1014–16.

372. For the note on Lord Dorset _read_ Charles Sackville
(1638–1706), sixth Earl of Dorset, author of ‘To all you ladies
now on land,’ included with other songs in Hazlitt’s _Select
British Poets_.

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23. ‘_Those suns and skies so pure._’ Warton, Sonnet (IX.) to the
River Lodon.

93. ‘_The fair variety of things._’ Akenside, _Pleasures of the
Imagination_, I. 78.

94. _A neighbouring Baronet._ See vol. XII., note to p. 202.

96. ‘_Like life and death_,’ _etc._ Cf. Lamb., _John Woodvil_,

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