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[98] From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 1688.

[99] A statement to this effect is made by Dryden in the Preface to the Fables.

[100] From Preface to the Fables.

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[101] See Wordsworth’s Essay, Supplementary to the Preface, 1815, and Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria.

[102] An Apology for Smectymnuus, Prose Works, ed. 1843, III, 117-18.  Milton was thirty-four years old at this time.

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[103] The opening words of Dryden’s Postscript to the Reader in the translation of Virgil, 1697.

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[104] The opening lines of The Hind and the Panther.

[105] Imitations of Horace, Book II, Satire 2, ll. 143-44.

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[106] From On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq.

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[107] Clarinda.  A name assumed by Mrs. Maclehose in her sentimental connection with Burns, who corresponded with her under the name of Sylvander.

[108] Burns to Mr. Thomson, October 19, 1794.

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[109] From The Holy Fair.

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[110] From Epistle:  To a Young Friend.

[111] From Address to the Unco’ Quid, or the Rigidly Righteous.

[112] From Epistle:  To Dr. Blacklock.

[Footnote 4:  See his Memorabilia.][Transcriber’s note:  The reference for this footnote is missing from the original text.]

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[113] From Winter:  A Dirge.

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[114] From Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, III, iv, last line.

[115] Ibid., II, v.

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[116] Reprinted (considerably revised) from the Nineteenth Century, August, 1882, vol.  XII, in Discourses in America, Macmillan & Co., 1885.  It was the most popular of the three lectures given by Arnold during his visit to America in 1883-84.

[117] Plato’s Republic, 6. 495, Dialogues, ed.  Jowett, 1875, vol. 3, p. 194.

[118] working lawyer.  Plato’s Theoetetus, 172-73, Dialogues, IV, 231.

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[119] majesty.  All editions read “majority.”  What Emerson said was “majesty,” which is therefore substituted here.  See Emerson’s Literary Ethics, Works, Centenary ed., I, 179.