----- Footnote 30: It is Steele’s; and the whole paper (No. 95) is in his most delightful manner. The dream about the mistress, however, is given to Addison by the Editors, and the general style of that number is his; though, from the story being related personally of Bickerstaff, who is also represented as having been at that time in the army, we conclude it to have originally come from Steele, perhaps in the course of conversation. The particular incident is much more like a story of his than of Addison’s.—H. T. Footnote 31: We had in our hands the other day an original copy of the _Tatler_, and a list of the subscribers. It is curious to see some names there which we should hardly think of, (that of Sir Isaac Newton is among them), and also to observe the degree of interest excited by those of the different persons, which is not adjusted according to the rules of the Heralds’ College. Footnote 32: Pope also declares that he had a particular regard for an old post which stood in the court-yard before the house where he was brought up. Footnote 33: See also the passage in his prose works relating to the first design of _Paradise Lost_. Footnote 34: ‘Oh! for my sake do you with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmless deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand.’ At another time, we find him ‘desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope’: so little was Shakspeare, as far as we can learn, enamoured of himself! Footnote 35: See an Essay on the genius of Hogarth, by C. Lamb, published in a periodical work, called the _Reflector_. Footnote 36: ‘A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it; it ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish, dull, and crudy vapours which environ it; and makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes, which, delivered over to the tongue, becomes excellent wit,’ etc.—_Second Part of Henry IV._ Footnote 37: We have an instance in our own times of a man, equally devoid of understanding and principle, but who manages the House of Commons by his _manner_ alone. Footnote 38: