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Footnotes:
[97] 'Mason:' William Mason, author of 'Elfrida,' 'Caractacus,' and an
'Elegy on the Death of the Countess of Coventry,' the intimate friend,
executor, and biographer of Gray.
[98] 'Gisbal:' a stupid and scurrilous attack on Scotland.
[99] 'Weeping streams:' referring to Lord Lyttelton's Monody on his
wife's death, and his Essay on the conversion of Paul.
[100] 'Stuarts:' the family name of Lord Bute.
[101] 'Holy martyr:' Charles I.
[102] 'Ramsays:' Allan Ramsay, author of the 'Gentle Shepherd,' and his
son (Allan), a fine painter, intimate with Reynolds and Johnson.
[103] 'Home:' John Home, the well known author of 'Douglas.' See
Mackenzie's Life.
[104] 'Dull Dean:' Dr Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of
Westminster, who rebuked Churchill for writing on players and dressing
like a layman.
[105] 'Great Macpherson:' James Macpherson, translator or author of
'Ossian.'
[106] 'Malloch:' David Mallett, son of an innkeeper in Crieff, friend
of Thomson's, author of a poor life of Bacon, and of one good ballad,
'William and Margaret,' editor of Bolingbroke's posthumous infidel
works, under-secretary to the Prince of Wales, and a pensioner.
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