NOTE k.

_Like those blest Youths_,

See the Legend of the Seven Sleepers. GIBBON, c. 33.

NOTE l.

_Catch the blest accents of the wise and great_.

Mr. Pope delights in enumerating his illustrious guests. Nor is this
an exclusive privilege of the poet. The Medici Palace at Florence
exhibits a long and imposing catalogue. "Semper hi parietes
columnæque eruditis vocibus resonuerunt."

Another is also preserved at Chanteloup, the seat of the Duke of
Choiseul.

NOTE m.

_Sheds, like an evening-star, its ray serene_,

At a Roman supper statues were sometimes employed to hold the lamps.

--Aurea sunt juvenum simulacra per ædeis,
Lampadas igniferas manibus retinentia dextris.
LUCR. ii. 24.

A fashion as old as Homer! Odyss. vii. 100.