Note 622 — Chapter I · FROM ADDISON TO JOHNSON. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The best known is Cowper’s, in Table Talk, ll. 384, 385—
“The inestimable Estimate of Brown
Rose like a paper-kite and charmed the town.”
See also Chesterfield, to the Bishop of Waterford, April 14, 1758. Chesterfield was no Bottom, but, being melancholy at the time, he was tickled.