P. 47, l. 2. W-tt-n . . . going to sustain his . . . friend, appears to refer to the fact that Bentley's Dissertation appeared in Wotton's Reflections, but see pp. xliii.-iv. of Introduction.
Temple's Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning
P. 49, l. 8. Juvat antiquos accedere fontes: slightly altered by the substitution of antiquos for integros from Lucretius. De Rer. Nat. I. 927 and IV. 2.
P. 49, l. 13. story, history.
P. 50, l. 11. one in English upon the Antediluvian world, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth. There were four books of the Sacred Theory: Temple seems to refer to the first two, published, in English, in 1684. These deal with the Deluge and Paradise.
P. 50, l. 13. the Plurality of Worlds, Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes (1686), see p. xii. of Introduction.
P. 50, l. 20. a small piece concerning poesy, Fontenelle's Poésies Pastorales (1688), see p. xii. of Introduction.
P. 50, l. 23. could not end, &c., refers apparently to Chapter IX. of Book II. of the Sacred Theory.
P. 51, l. 3. the censure of the old poetry, in the Digression and Discours sur l'Eglogue.
P. 51, l. 17. the similitude of a dwarf's standing, &c. Rigault quotes this simile in his analysis of Fontenelle's Digression. It does not occur in any edition of the Digression which I have seen. In any case the idea is an old one (see Bartlett's Dictionary of Quotations). Newton is said to have compared himself to a dwarf standing on the shoulders of the ancients.
