[169] 'Tips with silver:' occurs also in the famous moonlight scene in the 'Iliad'-- 'Tips with silver every mountain's head.' [170] 'Adieu!' how like Burns's lines, beginning-- "But when life's day draws near the gloaming, Farewell to vacant, careless roaming!" &c. [171] 'Donne:' Pope, it is said, imitated Donne's 'Satires' to show that celebrated men before him had been as severe as he. Donne was an extraordinary man--first a Roman Catholic, then a barrister, then a clergyman in the Church of England, and Dean of St Paul's,--a vigorous although rude satirist, a fine Latin versifier, the author of many powerful sermons, and of a strange book defending suicide; altogether a strong, eccentric, extravagant genius. [172] 'Paul:' supposed to be Paul Benfield, Esq., M.P., who was engaged in the jobbing transactions of that period; others fill up the blank in the original copy with Hall--as, for instance, Croly in his excellent edition. [173] 'Hoadley:' Bishop, whose sentences were wire-drawn. [174] 'Figs:' a prize-fighting academy; 'White's:' a gaming-house, both much frequented by the young nobility. [175] 'Deadly sins:' the room hung with old tapestry, representing the seven deadly sins. [176] 'Ascapart:' a giant of romance. [177] 'Epilogue:' the first part of which was originally published as 'One thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight.' It appeared the same day with Johnson's 'London.' [178] 'Bubo:' Bubb Duddington. [179] 'Sir Billy:' Tonge. [180] 'Huggins:' formerly jailor of the Fleet prison, enriched himself by many exactions, for which he was tried and expelled.--P. [181] 'Cropp'd our ears:' said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins, the captain of an English one. He cut off his ears, and bid him carry them to the king his master.--P. [182] 'The great man:' the first minister. [183] 'Seen him I have:' alluding to Pope's service to Abbe Southcot, see 'Life.' [184] 'Jekyl:' Sir Joseph Jekyl, master of the rolls, a true Whig in his principles, and a man of the utmost probity.--P. [185] 'Lyttleton:' George Lyttleton, secretary to the Prince of Wales, distinguished both for his writings and speeches in the spirit of liberty.--P. [186] 'Sejanus, Wolsey:' the one the wicked minister of Tiberius; the other, of Henry VIII. The writers against the court usually bestowed these and other odious names on the minister, without distinction, and in the most injurious manner.--P. [187] 'Fleury:' Cardinal; and minister to Louis XV. It was a patriot-fashion, at that time, to cry up his wisdom and honesty.--P. [188] 'Henley, Osborn:' see them in their places in 'The Dunciad.' [189] 'Nation's sense:' the cant of politics at that time. [190] 'Carolina:' Queen-consort to King George II. She died in 1737. See, for her character, 'Heart of Midlothian.' [191] 'Gazetteer:' then Government newspaper. [192] 'Immortal Selkirk:' Charles, third son of Duke of Hamilton, created Earl of Selkirk in 1887.