Note 52 — Chapter I · THE IMAGINATIVE GROUP
Reading edition
“Written originally for the entertainment of the Ladies of Tauris and now translated,” a phrase omitted from later editions. Cf. Dr. Johnson, Life of Collins (Chalmers, English Poets. London, 1810, Vol. XIII., p. 193): “In his last illness ... he spoke with disapprobation of his Oriental Eclogues, as not sufficiently expressive of Asiatic manners, and called them his Irish Eclogues.” Cf. App. B, I., No. 34, p. 278.