[Footnote 223:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, p. 192.  In his George the Third, Thackeray said:  “Do you remember the verses—­the sacred verses—­which Johnson wrote on the death of his humble friend Levett?” (Biographical edition of Thackeray, Vol.  VII, p. 671.)]

  [Footnote 224:  Life of Johnson.]

  [Footnote 225:  Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate.]

  [Footnote 226:  Dryden, Vol.  XI, p. 81, note; Review of the Life and
  Works of John Home, Quarterly, June, 1827.]

  [Footnote 227:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  II, p. 44.]

[Footnote 228:  Swift, Vol.  XVI, p. 275, note.  On one of the last sad days before Sir Walter left Scotland for his Italian journey he quoted in full Prior’s poem on Mezeray’s History of France. (Lockhart, Vol.  V, pp. 339-40.)]

  [Footnote 229:  Swift, Vol.  III, p. 36.]

  [Footnote 230:  Ibid., Vol.  XIII, p. 24.]

  [Footnote 231:  Correspondence of C.K.  Sharpe, Vol.  II, p. 194.]

  [Footnote 232:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 67; Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 401.]

  [Footnote 233:  Allan Cunningham’s Life of Scott, p. 96.]

  [Footnote 234:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 483.]

[Footnote 235:  See the satirical paragraph in his review of Gertrude of Wyoming, on the habits of reviewers in general.  “We are perfectly aware,” he says, “that, according to the modern canons of criticism, the Reviewer is expected to show his immense superiority to the author reviewed, and at the same time to relieve the tediousness of narration, by turning the epic, dramatic, moral story before him into quaint and lively burlesque.” (Quarterly, May, 1809.) In his review of the Life and Works of John Home he speaks of “the hackneyed rules of criticism, which, having crushed a hundred poets, will never, it may be prophesied, create, or assist in creating, a single one.” (Quarterly, June, 1827.)]

  [Footnote 236:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 363.]

  [Footnote 237:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 501.  For a further comparison of
  Scott and Jeffrey as critics see below, pp. 134-5.]

  [Footnote 238:  Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 204.]

  [Footnote 239:  Ibid., Vol.  V, p. 97.]

  [Footnote 240:  Journal, Vol.  II, p. 262]

  [Footnote 241:  Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 173]

[Footnote 242:  In general Scott admired Lockhart.  “I have known the most able men of my time,” he once wrote, “and I never met any one who had such ready command of his own mind, and possessed in a greater degree the power of making his talents available upon the shortest notice, and upon any subject.” (Life of Murray, Vol.  II, p. 222.) But in Lockhart’s earlier days Scott said, “I am sometimes angry