[249] “Prospect of Plenty.” [250] (_a_) Dr. Armstrong’s “Winter” in “Imitations of Shakespeare,” written in 1725, though not published till 1770. (_b_) Riccaltoun’s “A Winter’s Day,” written before 1725, published in Savage’s “Miscellany” in 1726, and in “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 1740. (_c_) Thomson’s “Winter,” written in fragments before 1725, but fused into one poem at Mallet’s suggestion in 1726. [251] “The Art of Preserving Health,” i, 64–96. [252] _Ibid._, i, 97–102; iii, 39–52. [253] _Ibid._, iii, 71–96. [254] Pope, “Works,” VI, 36, 37. [255] Wordsworth, “Essay Supplementary to the Preface,” 1815. [256] Pope, “Works,” I, 322; Denham, “Cooper’s Hill;” Marvell, “Upon the Hill and Grove at Billbarrow,” and “Upon Appleton House.” [257] Veitch in “Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry,” II, 52, credits Thomson with being the first poet to mention purple heather, but this mention by Pope is more than twenty years earlier. [258] Pope, “Works,” I, 346, n. 3; but compare “Autumn,” l. 74. [259] _Ibid._, I, 269, n. 1. [260] _Ibid._, I, 283, n. 3; 296, n. 9. [261] _Ibid._, I, 293; cf. Warton, “Essay on Pope,” I, 6. [262] (_a_) Description of moonshine walk. (This letter, perhaps a sincere expression when first written (1713), was a favorite of Pope’s. When he published his “Letters” he made an amusing blunder by transferring this passage to a letter dated February 10, 1715, at which time the park where he was supposed to have watched the moonshine and reflected on mortality, was under water from the great flood of February 9; see “Letters,” I, 367.) (_b_) “Pleasure in Birds,” etc., I, 338. (_c_) “Twickenham in Spring,” IV, 72, 74. (_d_) “Autumn,” IV, 89. [263] “Spectator,” June 21, 1712 (No. 411). [264] _Ibid._, June 23, 1712 (No. 412); June 25, 1712 (No. 414). [265] _Ibid._, June 23, 1712 (No. 412). [266] _Ibid._, May 31 (No. 393). [267] _Ibid._, October 30, 1712 (No. 523). [268] _Ibid._, October 30, 1712 (No. 523); cf. “Guardian,” Nos. 22, 23, 28, 30, 32, 40. [269] See further discussion under “Gardening.” [270] “Liberty,” Part 3, ll. 514–26. [271] _Ibid._, Part 4, ll. 348–62. [272] “The Castle of Indolence,” canto ii, st. 3. [273] “Spring,” ll. 529–55. [274] “Summer,” ll. 140–59. Suggested probably by Mallet. See Letter, August 2, 1726: “Your hint of the sapphire, emerald, ruby, strikes my imagination with a pleasing taste, and shall not be neglected.” [275] “Spring,” ll. 574–613. [276] “Summer,” ll. 1116–68. [277] “Spring,” ll. 614–30. [278] _Ibid._, ll. 636–60. [279] _Ibid._, ll. 690–701. [280] “Winter,” ll. 245–56. [281] “Spring,” ll. 21–25; “Winter,” ll. 144–47. [282] “Spring,” ll. 770–85. [283] “Summer,” ll. 371–422. [284] “Spring,” ll. 808–20; “Summer,” ll. 506–15. [285] “Spring,” ll. 362–71; “Summer,” ll. 489–93. [286] “Spring,” ll. 336–73. [287] “Autumn,” ll. 360–457; “Winter,” ll. 788–93. [288] “Spring,” ll. 702–28. [289] “Autumn,” ll. 1172–1207. [290] “Spring,” ll. 394–442.