[Footnote 91: Addison, "An Account of the Greatest English Poets." Quoted by Henry Morley, LL.D., "English Literature in the Reign of Victoria."]
[Footnote 92: Lecky's "History of England in the 18th Century," vol. i, p. 502.]
[Footnote 93: Lord Hervey, "Memoirs of George II," v. 3, p. 527.]
[Footnote 94: Hervey's "Mem. of George II," vol. 1, p. 147, note.]
[Footnote 95: Walpole's "Reminiscences"; Hervey's "Mem.," v. 2, p. 103, note.]
[Footnote 96: Walpole's "Mem. of George II," vol. 1, p. 87.]
[Footnote 97: Browne's "Estimate of the Times"; Lecky, "Hist. of 18th Century," vol. 1, p. 509.]
[Footnote 98: Lord Hervey, "Mem. of Geo. II," vol. i, p. 5.]
[Footnote 103: Hervey's "Memoirs," 1, 39.]
[Footnote 107: Hervey's "Memoirs," vol. 1, p. 37.]
[Footnote 109: Horace Walpole, "Reminiscences."]
[Footnote 110: Locke "On Civil Government," b. ii, ch. 13; Lecky's "History of the 18th Century," vol. I, p. 471.]
[Footnote 111: Hervey's "Memoirs," ii, 280.]
[Footnote 112: Chesterfield, "Correspondence," iii, 94.]
[Footnote 113: Walpole to Mann, Dec. 24, 1741.]
[Footnote 114: Hervey's "Memoirs," i, 172.]
[Footnote 115: "History of the Eighteenth Century," vol. 1, p. 512.]
[Footnote 116: Green's "Short History of the English People," pp. 768-9.]
[Footnote 118: Hervey's "Memoirs," vol. i, p. 500.]
[Footnote 119: Hervey's "Memoirs," vol. i, p. 502.]
[Footnote 120: Lord Hervey's "Memoirs", ii, 255.]
[Footnote 122: Hervey's "Memoirs," ii, 472.]
[Footnote 123: Hervey's "Memoirs," ii, 350.]
[Footnote 126: _Tatler_, No. 159, Saturday, April 15, 1710.]
[Footnote 128: Walpole to Montague, March 20, 1737.]
[Footnote 129: Wilson's "Memoirs of Defoe," vol. i, p. 265.]
[Footnote 130: Wilson's "Memoirs of Defoe," vol. i, p. 206.]
[Footnote 131: Steele, _Tatler_, No. 12 May 7, 1709.]
[Footnote 132: Walpole to Mann, Nov. 26, 1711.]
[Footnote 133: Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Dec. 5, 1739.]
[Footnote 134: Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Jan. 17, 1731-32.]
[Footnote 135: Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Nov. 18, 1729.]
[Footnote 136: Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Christmas-day, 1729.]
[Footnote 137: Green, "Short History of the English People," p. 717.]
[Footnote 138: Lord Hervey's "Memoirs of George II," vol. ii, p. 139.]
[Footnote 139: Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes," p. 259; Lecky, "History of England in the 18th Century," vol. i, chap. iv.]