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[344-3] Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.--OVID: _Metamorphoses i._

[345-1] See Otway, page 280.

[345-2] See Shakespeare, page 79.

[346-1] See page 328.

[346-2] Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.--_Hebrews xiii. 2._

[347-1] Pope calls this the eighth beatitude (Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. x. page 184).

[347-2] On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of Venice." . . . Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit that he, as it were involuntarily, exclaimed,--

"This is the Jew That Shakespeare drew!"

It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope, and that he meant his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against Lord Lansdowne.--_Biographia Dramatica, vol. i.