Note 3 — Front matter
Reading edition
"In 1813 a public meeting was held in Dumfries; a subscription was opened, and, contributions flowing in rapidly from all quarters, a costly mausoleum was at length erected on the most elevated site which the churchyard presented. Thither the remains of the poet were solemnly transferred on the 5th of June, 1815."—Lockhart, chap. ix.
Carlyle used brave ironically in the sense of beautiful, splendid. Lockhart says mildly: "The structure is perhaps more gaudy than might have been wished."