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[1] M. Sainte-Beuve, the greatest of French critics, frankly acknowledges his indebtedness to Boileau, whom he styles Louis the Fourteenth's 'Contrôleur Général du Parnasse.' 'S'il m'est permis de parler pour moi-même,' he writes, 'Boileau est un des hommes qui m'ont le plus occupé depuis que je fais de la critique, et avec qui j'ai le plus vécu en idée.'—Causeries du Lundi, tome sixième, p. 495.

[2] Lecky's England, vol. i. p. 373.

[3] The epithet is used in the Preface to the First Edition of Waller's Posthumous Poems, which Mr. Gosse believes was written by Atterbury, and he considers that this is the original occurrence of the phrase.—From Shakespeare to Pope, p. 248.

[4] Messrs. Besant and Rice's novel, The Chaplain of the Fleet, gives a vivid picture of the life led in the Fleet, and also of the period.

[5] Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, vol. ii. p. 55.

[6] Lecky's England, vol. i. p. 479.

[7] Shaftesbury's Characteristics, vol. i. p. 270.

[8] Spectator, No. 126.

[9] Lecky's England, vol. i. p. 522.

[10] According to Hallam the thirty years which followed the Treaty of Utrecht 'was the most prosperous season that England had ever experienced.'—Const. Hist. ii. 464.