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ОглавлениеSomerset House, Whitehall Chapel (the old Banqueting Hall), the church at Limehouse and the new church at Chelsea, with the Bell house at Chelsea College, which always reminded him of Trinity College, Cambridge, were the objects most interesting to him [Lamb] in London.
Page 181. VII.—[Gray's "Bard."]
The Examiner, September 12, 1813. Signed ‡. Reprinted by Leigh Hunt under the above title in The Indicator, December 13, 1820. In the Appendix (pages 425–6) will be found other critical comments upon Gray, which I conjecture to be Lamb's.
Page 181, line 1 of essay. The beard of Gray's bard.
Loose his beard, and hoary hair
Stream'd like a meteor, to the troubled air.
The Bard.
Gray himself noted the Miltonic anticipation of this line (see Gosse's edition, 1884). The lines Lamb quotes are from Paradise Lost, I., lines 536–537.
Page 181, line 6 of essay. Heywood's old play. "The Four 'Prentices of London," by Thomas Heywood. The speech is that of Turnus respecting the Persian Sophy. It is copied in one of Lamb's Commonplace Books.
Page 182. VIII.—[An American War for Helen.]
The Examiner, September 26, 1813. Signed ‡. Reprinted under the above title by Leigh Hunt in The Indicator, January 3, 1821.
