Note 220 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP
Reading edition
Cf. Sir William Chambers’s Dissertation on Oriental Gardening ... London, 1772; and Dobson’s edition (1893) of The Citizen of the World, Vol. I., n. to p. 52, l. 4, in which the editor refers to An Heroic Epistle by William Mason, ridiculing Chambers’s Dissertation. Cf. also the satire in verse, Kien Long, a Chinese Imperial eclogue translated from a curious Oriental manuscript and inscribed to the author of An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, London, 1775.