[6] A note in the edition of Johnson's _Lives of the Poets_, published in 1801, states, on the authority of a "Lady in Wiltshire," who derived her information from a Mr. Stephens, a Fellow of Magdalen and a contemporary of Addison's, that the Henry Sacheverell to whom Addison dedicated his _Account of the Greatest English Poets_ was not the well-known divine, but a personal friend of Addison's, who died young, having written a _History of the Isle of Man_. [7] _Spence's Anecdotes_, p. 50. [8] Compare the _Notes on the Metamorphoses_, Fab. v. (Tickell's edition, vol. vi. p. 183), where the substance of the above passage is found in embryo. [9] _Dunciad_, Book iv. 224. [10] Compare _Spectator_, 414. "I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my part I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, rather than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the finished parterre." [11] Letter to the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Esq., Blois, 10{br} 1699. [12] Letter from Italy to Lord Halifax. [13] Addison's _Works_ (Tickell's edition), vol. v. p. 301. [14] Addison's _Works_ (Tickell's edition), vol. v. p. 213. [15] Oldham's Satire _Dissuading from Poetry_. [16] Oldham's Satire _Dissuading from Poetry_. [17] Blackmore, _The Kit-Kats_. [18] _Spectator_, No. 9. [19] _Spectator_, No. 18. [20] _Spectator_, No. 18. [21] Sir John Hawkins' _History of Music_, vol. v. p. 137. [22] Burney's _History of Music_, vol. iv. p. 203. [23] _Spectator_, No. 469. [24] Fourth Drapier's Letter. [25] Who the "mistress" was cannot be certainly ascertained. See, however, p. 146. [26] Egerton MSS., British Museum (1972). [27] Andrews' _History of British Journalism_. [28] _Staple of News_, Act I. Scene 2. [29] Andrews' _History of British Journalism_. [30] _Tatler_, No. 1. [31] _Ibid._ [32] _Tatler_, No. 271. [33] _Preface to the Fables._ [34] _Tatler_, No. 5. [35] _Ib._, No. 82. [36] _Ib._, Nos. 25, 26, 28, 29, 38, 39. [37] _Ib._, No. 85. [38] _Tatler_, No. 87. [39] Spence's _Anecdotes_, p. 325. [40] _Tatler_, vol. iv. p. 545 (Nichols' edition). [41] See p. 93, note 3. [42] _Tatler_, No. 6. [43] _Spectator_, No. 10. [44] _Spectator_, No. 10. [45] _Spectator_, No. 10. [46] The writer was a Miss Shepherd. [47] _Spectator_, No. 134. [48] _Spectator_, No. 553. [49] _Ibid._, No. 542. [50] _Spectator_, No. 10. [51] _Spectator_, No. 555. [52] See Addison's _Works_ (Tickell's edition), vol. v. p. 187. [53] Spence's _Anecdotes_, p. 196. [54] _Spectator_, No. 40. [55] _Spectator_, No. 40. [56] See p. 43. [57] Spence's _Anecdotes_, p. 151. [58] _Ibid._ [59] These lines are to be found in _The Campaign_, see p. 66. [60] _Spectator_, No. 39. [61] Spence's _Anecdotes_, pp. 148, 149. [62] Spence's _Anecdotes_, p. 257.