What though nor real voice nor sound The hand that made us is divine.'-C. No. 489. Thanksgiving after Travel. Βαθυρρείταο μέγα σθένος Ωκεανοῖο.—Hom. [The great might of the deep-flowing Ocean stream.] Confusion dwelt in every face, And fear in every heart: When waves on waves, and gulfs on gulfs, No. 513. 'A Thought in Sickness"? Afflata est numine quando Jam propiore dei. * VIRG. Æn. vi. 50. When, rising from the bed of death, O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, I see my Maker, face to face, 473 If yet, while pardon may be found, My heart with inward horror shrinks, When thou, O Lord, shalt stand disclosed, In majesty severe, And sit in judgment on my soul, But thou hast told the troubled mind, Then see the sorrows of my heart, And hear my Saviour's dying groans, For never shall my soul despair Who knows thine only Son has died NOTES. I. THE SPECTATOR CLUB. P. 2, 1. 37. This celebrated coffee-house stood at the south end of Bow Street, Covent Garden. In the preceding generation it was rather the rendezvous of wits than of politicians. Dryden made it his habitual resort, both winter and summer; and here probably he was seen by Pope, then a boy of twelve years, in the last year of his life, 1700. Child's was in St. Paul's Churchyard; it was much resorted to by the clergy, and persons of clerical politics. The St. James's stood at the end of Pall Mall, near to what is now 87 St. James's Street; it was an exclusively Whig house. The Grecian was in Devereux Court, Strand; it existed as a tavern till 1842. From it Isaac Bickerstaff in the Tatler undertakes to issue his disquisitions on points of learning. It was founded about 1652 by the Greek servant of an English merchant returned from the Levant, and was the first of English coffee-houses. Jonathan's, in Change Alley, was frequented by stock-jobbers. (Wills' Sir Roger de Coverley.) P. 3, 1. 13. The character and ways of the Spectator' seem to be those of Addison himself, humorously exaggerated. With any mixture of strangers,' says Pope (Spence's Anecdotes), and sometimes only with one, he seemed to preserve his dignity much, with a stiff sort of silence.' Distinguishing between his own powers in conversation and in writing, Addison is reported to have said, 'I have only ninepence in my pocket, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.' See Boswell's Johnson, iii. 302 (Oxford ed.). P. 4, 1. 26. A small street off Aldersgate Street, City. No. 2. This number was written by Steele, but as it contains the original sketches of the characters and antecedents of the different members of the Spectator Club, it is always printed along with Addison's papers. Bishop Hurd says, 'The characters were concerted with Mr. Addison; and the draught of them, in this paper, I supposed touched by him.' P. 5, 1. 15. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, son of the Lord Wilmot who figured as a distinguished Royalist captain in the Civil War, was one of Charles II's favourite courtiers. He ran into every excess, and died before he was forty, but repented of his errors on his death-bed, according to the narrative of Gilbert Burnet, who was called in to see him shortly before he died. 1. 16. Sir George Etherege, author of several noted plays, amongst others of the comedy of Sir Fopling Flutter, broke his neck by falling down stairs, at the close of an uproarious drinking-bout, in 1694. 1. 38. The Inner, Middle, and Outer Temples in Fleet Street, once the property of the famous order of chivalry which took its name from the Temple of Solomon, after the suppression of the Templars in 1312, were for some time in the hands of the knights of St. John (afterwards of Malta), by whom the two former were leased to the students of the Common Law, a devise which is still in force. P. 6, 1. 4. Longinus, a Greek writer of the third century after Christ, is the author of a celebrated treatise On the Sublime.' 1. 5. The reference is to the old law-book, 'Coke upon Littleton,' being the commentary of Lord Chief Justice Coke (reign of James I) on a treatise upon Tenures by Judge Littleton, who wrote in the time of Edward IV. P. 8, 1. 25. The unfortunate son of Charles II and Lucy Barlow, or Walters, had a very handsome person. Macaulay speaks of his 'superficial graces,' and adds that 'even the stern and pensive William relaxed into good humour when his brilliant guest appeared.' (Hist. of England.) P. 12, 1. 10. Hesiod's Works and Days, 125. The passage describes, not 'the Golden Age,' as Mr. Morley explains it, but the period after the golden age, when the purer race had been removed by Zeus from the earth, yet still revisited their old haunts as blessed spirits, 'the guardians of mortal men,' 'clothed in mist, going to and fro everywhere over the earth.' P. 15, 1. 11. The second triumvirate, formed between Octavius, Anthony, and Lepidus. See Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act iv. Sc. 1. P. 17, l. 13. The game at cards which is immortalized by being introduced into Pope's Rape of the Lock: Belinda now, whom thirst of fame invites, Burns to encounter two adventurous knights, And swells her breast with conquests yet to come.' P. 18, 1. 13. Addison is probably glancing here at the non-juring divines, men like Hickes, Brett, Collier, and Dodwell, whose learning their high Church and Tory friends were fond of maliciously extolling at the expense of their Whig rivals. So Bishop Burnet (History of his Own Times, Book II) speaks of the 'pedantry' by which the preaching of the clergy of the old school was overrun, before the rise of that intellectual and genial body of men, the Latitudinarian divines. P. 19, 1. 33. Bishop Hurd remarks,- The word "nature" is used here a little licentiously. He should have said "in the office," or "the quality of a chaplain." At the present day we should rather say 'in the character of a chaplain.' P. 20, 1. 39. It is not quite clear what bishop of St. Asaph is meant. If it be Dr. Fleetwood, the then occupant of the see, the reference can only be |