Editorial note — VOLUME II. (continued 20)
Reading edition
“The History of Mrs. Mordaunt” (pg. 228, 237, 244, 253, 261, 269).
The source of this serial has not been identified, but there is no reason to think it was written for the New-York Weekly.
Quotations:
“Gently the moon...” Opening stanza of “The Bard”, anon., 1784 in The Hibernian Magazine
“and sober evening had taken ‘her wonted station in the middle air.’” Thomson, “Seasons”, Summer
“All the lowly children of the vale.” James Grahame, British Georgics, October
“Shoulder’d his crutch, & shew’d how fields were won.” Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
“Hope, sweetest child of fancy born...” J. Duncombe, Farewell to Hope, first stanza.
“Then crown’d again...” Paradise Lost, as attributed.
“An Address To The Votaries Of Poesy” (pg. 304, 308, 312).
Title: “A Prospect of Poetry: address’d to the Right Honourable John, Earl of Orrery”.
Author: “James De-La-Cour” or Dalacourt 1709-1781.
Changes: Opening stanzas omitted; two stanzas skipped before “Your sounds in softer notes...”; last two lines not in original.