See
Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets.'
[84] His only daughter expired in his arms, immediately after
she arrived in France to see him.
[85] Lady Mary Montague wrote a rejoinder to this poem, in a
caustic, sneering vein.
[86] 'Vindicate the ways,' &c.: borrowed from Milton.
[87] 'Egypt's God:' Apis.
[88] 'Thin partitions' from Dryden.
[89] 'Glory, jest, and riddle of the world:' Pascal in his
'Pensees' has a thought almost identical with this.
[90] 'Good bishop:' De Belsance, who distinguished himself by
attention to the sick of the plague, in his diocese of Marseilles in
1720.
[91] 'Bethel:' a benevolent gentleman in Yorkshire, a great
friend of Pope's.
[92] 'Chartres:' Colonel, infamous for every vice--a fraudulent
gambler, &c. &c.
[93] 'Cromwell:' it is not necessary now to answer this insult
to the greatest of Britain's kings. It is a clever ape chattering at a
dead lion.
[94] 'Good John:' John Serle, his old and faithful servant.
[95] 'Mint:' a place to which insolvent debtors retired, to
enjoy an illegal protection, which they were there suffered to afford
one another, from the persecution of their creditors.--P.
[96] 'Pitholeon:' The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes,
who pretended much to Greek.--P.
[97] 'Butchers, Henley:' Orator Henley used to declaim to the
butchers in Newport market.
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