1. 18. but of very harsh construction. "Living" is used in the sense of while he was alive,' and "dying" in the sense of 'now that he is dead.' So Dryden used "reversed" in the sense of 'when they had been revers'd,' a construction which misled Johnson as to his meaning. (See the Dryden, p. 95, 1. 19, and the note there.)

1. 19. Henry Withers. 'Henry Withers, Lieutenant-General, descended from a military stock, and bred in arms in Britain, Dunkirk, and Tangier. Through the whole course of the two last wars of England with France, he served in Ireland, in the Low Countries, and in Germany: was present in every battle and at every siege..." (from the prose inscription on Withers's monument in Westminster Abbey).

Page 122, 1. 15. Mr. Elijah Fenton, the author of great part of the translation of the Odyssey. See above, p. 41, l. 9 fg.

1. 24. From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, a reminiscence of Horace. "So rarely can we find the man who, contented with his portion of days, leaves the banquet like one who has had his fill" (Satires, i. 1. 117-119).

1. 26. borrowed from Crashaw.

"The modest front of this small floor
Believe me, reader, can say more

Than many a braver marble can:
Here lies a truly honest man.

(Crashaw, Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton.)

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Page 123, 1. 29. the wit of a man, etc. 'Pope had probably in his mind 1 Corinthians, xiv. 20: In malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.' But Dryden, also, had said of Mrs. Killigrew: 'Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child'" (Arnold's note).

Page 124, 1. 16. The thought in the last line. Ward compares the following four lines from a recently discovered poem, which has been attributed to Milton:

1. 21. Isaacus Newtonius, etc. Isaac Newton, whom Time, Nature, and the Heavens call immortal, this marble confesses to have been mortal.

1. 28. Why part should be Latin, etc. Compare above, p. 117, 1. 28 fg.

1. 31. he is not immortal, etc. An objection of the same petty

character as that which Johnson took to the conclusion of Dryden's and of Pope's Odes for St. Cecilia's Day. See above, p. 94, 1. 7 fg.

Page 125, 1. 1. Edmund, Duke of Buckingham. "Only son of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, by Katherine Darnley, natural daughter of James II." Roscoe.

1. 25. The contemptible dialogue between He and She. An epitaph on Atterbury. See note above, on p. 112, 1. 14.

1. 27. In his last epitaph on himself.

"Under this Marble, or under this Sill,

Or under this Turf, or e'en what they will;
Whatever an Heir, or a Friend in his stead,
Or any good creature shall lay o'er my head,
Lies one who ne'er car'd, and still cares not a pin
What they said, or may say, of the mortal within :
But who living and dying, serene still and free,

Trusts in God, that as well as he was, he shall be."

Page 126, 1. 6. Areosti. "Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), one of the most famous of Italian poets, author of Orlando Furioso. The sense of the Latin lines in the text is as follows: The bones of Ludovico Ariosto lie buried under this stone, or under this sod, or under whatsoever his kind heir chose, or a comrade kinder than his heir, or a traveller lighting by good hap on his remains. For what would befall him he could not tell, but neither did he esteem his empty carcase enough to desire to provide for it an urn in his lifetime: howbeit in his lifetime he provided this inscription for his sepulchre, if any sepulchre he was hereafter to have"" (Arnold's note).

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