[363] Story's Gate and Rosamond's Pond were at opposite ends of
Birdcage Walk (see No. 60).
[364] "Steele assisted in this paper" (Tickell).
[365] No. 95.
[366] Dr. Smalridge (see No. 72).
[367] What follows is said to have been written by Addison. "It would
seem as though Steele felt himself unable to proceed, and his friend
had taken the pen from his trembling hand" (Forster, "Historical and
Biographical Essays," 1858, ii. 141).
[368] Pliny, Book viii., Epist. 5.
[369] "Says very justly" (folio).
[370] "Paradise Lost," iv. 639.
[371] "But as he [Milton] endeavours everywhere to express Homer,
whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true
sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms,
and ancient words which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer
and of Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat of
venerable in them. But I found not there neither that for which I
looked ['beautiful turns']." (Dryden's" Discourse on Satire.")
[372] "Paradise Lost," ii. 557.