Book II

. Canto III. St. 25.

349. ‘_By their own beauty_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘By our own spirits are we deified.’ Wordsworth, _Resolution and Independence_, 47.

350. ‘_The scale_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, VIII. 591–592.

351. _Incendio del Borgo._ Raphael’s fresco in the Vatican.

WILSON’S LIFE AND TIMES OF DANIEL DEFOE

Walter Wilson’s (1781–1847) _Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel Defoe_ was published in 3 vols. in 1830.

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355. _Tutchin and Ridpath._ John Tutchin (1661?–1707) and George Ridpath (d. 1726), two Whig contemporaries of Defoe, successive editors of _The Observator_.

_Dispraise of the Beggars’ Opera._ See Wilson’s _Memoirs, etc., of Defoe_, III. 595–596.

356. ‘_Excellent iteration in him._’ Cf. _Henry IV._,