NOTE I
Refinement from "Preface To Poetry"

Boileau would have agreed with Addison. Cf. L'Art Poétique, iii. 226 if., where he writes of those happy names that seem to have been born for poetry:

Ulysse, Agamemnon, Oreste, Idoméneé,
Helene, Ménélas, Paris, Hector, Enénée.
Oh! le plaisant projet d'un poece ignorant,
Qui de tant de heros va choisir Childebrand!
D'un eul nom quelquefois le son dur ou bizarre
Rend un poème ou burlesque ou barbare
.