[941] The passage begins:--'A _servant_ or two from a revering distance
cast many a wishful look, and condole their honoured master in the
language of sighs.' Hervey's _Meditations_, ed. 1748, i. 40.
[942] _Ib_. ii. 84.
[943] The _Meditation_ was perhaps partly suggested by Swift's
_Meditation upon a Broomstick_. Swift's _Works_ (1803), iii. 275.
[944] Thomas Burnet of the Charterhouse, in his _Sacred Theory of the
Earth_, ed. 1722, i. 85.
[945] See _ante_, i. 476, and ii. 73.
[946] Elizabeth Gunning, celebrated (like her sister, Lady Coventry) for
her personal charms, had been previously Duchess of Hamilton, and was
mother of Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, the competitor for the Douglas
property with the late Lord Douglas: she was, of course, prejudiced
against Boswell, who had shewn all the bustling importance of his
character in the Douglas cause, and it was said, I know not on what
authority, that he headed the mob which broke the windows of some of the
judges, and of Lord Auchinleck, his father, in particular. WALTER SCOTT.
See _ante_, ii. 50.
[947] See _ante_, i. 408, and ii. 329.
[948] She married the Earl of Derby, and was the great-grandmother of
the present Earl. Burke's _Peerage_.
[949] See _ante_, iv. 248.
[950] Lord Macaulay's grandfather, Trevelyan's _Macaulay_, i. 6.
[951] See _ante_, p.
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