.

[9] He was buried in Portugal Street graveyard, but was removed in 1853
on the erection of the new buildings of King's College Hospital.

[10] Smollett, of whom we shall speak in the next chapter, published
before Sterne, though a younger man.

[11] Dodsley was never averse from having a hit at the church, as in the
epigram:

"Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean
What reason can be given,
Since marriage is a holy thing,
That there are none in heaven?

"'There are no women,' he replied,
She quick returns the jest,
'Women there are, but I'm afraid
They cannot find a priest.'"

[12] There was a considerable amount of humour in it. Among the articles
offered for sale in the toy-shop is, "the least box that ever was seen
in England," in which nevertheless, "a courtier may deposit his
sincerity, a lawyer may screw up his honesty, and a poet may hoard up
his money."

[13] This introduction to popularity reminds us of the poet Lover, who
would never have been so well known had not Madame Vestris, when in want
of a comic song, selected "Rory O'More," which afterwards became so
famous. The celebrated enigma on the letter H was also produced by a
suggestion accidentally made overnight, and developed before morning by
Miss Fanshawe into beautiful lines formerly ascribed to Byron.

[14] A girl, who had been unfortunate in love.

[15] Byron showed his love of humour even in some of these early
effusions, speaking of his college he says:

"Our choir would scarcely be excused,
Even as a band of raw beginners:
All mercy, now, must be refused
To such a set of croaking sinners.
If David, when his toils were ended
Had heard these blockheads sing before him,
To us his psalms had ne'er descended;
In furious mood, he would have tore 'em."

[16] The saying "He that fights and runs away, shall live to fight
another day," is as old as the days of Menander.

[17] Beattie was unfortunate in selecting Moliere for his comparison,
for his humour is especially that of situation and can be tolerably well
understood by a foreigner.

[18] Thus we speak of "fried ice" or "ice with the chill off."

[19] It may be observed that as men's perceptions of humour are
different, so in the expression of them there is a character about
laughter in accordance with its subject, and with the person from whom
it comes.

[20] This term seems the nearest, though not quite accurate.

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