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INDEX OF AUTHORS.

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Adams, Charles F.678

Adams, John429

Adams, John, note529, 530

Adams, John Quincy312, 458

Adams, Sarah Flower606

Addison, Joseph297

Ady, Thomas684

Æschines, note810

Æschylus695

Agricola, note686

Akenside, Mark391

Alanus de Insulis, note5

Aldrich, James639

Ali Ben Taleb767

Allen, Elizabeth A.668

Alphonso the Wise768

Amelia, Princess676

Ames, Fisher, note283

Archilochus, note216

Ariosto, note552

Aristides, note438

Aristophanes, note731

Aristotle, note267, 853

Armstrong, John672

Arnold, Matthew665

Arnold, Samuel J., note388

Arrianus, note704

Athenæus766

Avonmore, Lord, note531

Bacon, Francis164

Bacon, Lady Anne, note7

Bailey, Philip James654

Baillie, Joanna674

Bancroft, George, note531

Barbauld, Mrs.433

Barère, Bertrand804

Barham, R. H.676

Barker, Theodore L.682

Barnfield, Richard175

Barrett, Eaton S.676

Barrington, George445

Barrow, Isaac, note299

Barry, Michael J.680

Basse, William, note179

Baxter, Richard670

Bayard, Chevalier, note21

Bayle, Peter, note604

Bayly, T. Haynes581

Beattie, James428

Beaumont and Fletcher197

Beaumont, Francis196

Beaumont, John, note478

Bee, Bernard E.860

Bell, Robert, note330

Bellamy, G. W.682

Bellinghausen, Von Münch806

Bentham, Jeremy856

Bentley, Richard284

Benton, Thomas H.858

Berkeley, Bishop312

Berners, Juliana, note182

Berry, Dorothy, note484

Bertaut, Jean, note100

Bertin, Mademoiselle, note811

Bettelheim, A. S., note170

Bickerstaff, Isaac427

Blacker, Colonel588

Blackmore, Richard, note685

Blackstone, Sir William392

Blair, Robert354

Blamire, Susanna673

Bland, Robert, note191

Bobart, Jacob, note688

Bodinus, note418

Bodley, Sir Thomas, note368

Boethius, note618

Boileau799

Bolingbroke304

Booth, Barton306

Borbonius, note321

Bourdillon, Francis W.669

Bracton857

Brainard, John G. C.677

[viii]Bramston, James352

Breen, H. H., note409

Brereton, Jane312

Breton, Nicholas, note33

Bromley, Isaac H.681

Brooke, Lord35

Brougham, Lord527

Brougham, Lord, note426

Brown, John380

Brown, Tom286

Browne, Sir Thomas217

Browne, William201

Browning, Elizabeth B.620

Browning, Robert643

Bryant, William Cullen572

Brydges, Sir S. Egerton674

Buffon, note186

Bulfinch, Samuel G., note488

Bunn, Alfred561

Bunsen, Carl Josias, note770

Bunyan, John265

Burchard, Samuel D.679

Burke, Edmund407

Burnet, Gilbert, note610

Burns, Robert446

Burton, Robert185

Bussy de Rabutin, note286

Butler, Samuel209

Butler, Samuel, note361

Byrd, William, note22

Byrom, John351

Byron, Lord539

Calhoun, John C.529

Callimachus, note496

Campbell, Lord, note418, 528

Campbell, Thomas512

Camden, William684

Cambronne, note810

Canning, George464

Carew, Thomas200

Carey, Henry285

Carlyle, Thomas577

Carpenter, Joseph E.680

Carruthers, Robert, note528

Catinat, Marshal, note740

Catullus, note306

Centlivre, Susannah671

Cervantes784

Channing, William E.655

Chapman, George35

Charles I., note398

Charron, note317

Chase, Salmon P.619

Chaucer, Geoffrey1

Cherry, Andrew453

Chesterfield, Earl of352

Child, Lydia Maria596

Choate, Rufus588

Chorley, Henry F.667

Christy, David854

Church, Benjamin, note513

Churchill, Charles412

Cibber, Colley295

Cibber, Colley, note294

Cicero705

Clarendon, Edward Hyde255

Clarke, John, note568

Clarke, Macdonald582

Clay, Henry516

Clay, Henry, note505

Cleveland, Grover669

Codrington, Christopher, note295

Coke, Sir Edward24

Coleridge, Hartley677

Coleridge, S. Taylor498

Coleridge, S. Taylor, note481

Collins, William389

Colman, George454

Colton, C. C.675

Congreve, William294

Constable, Henry, note484

Constant, Henry B.806

Cook, Eliza654

Cooper, J. Fenimore, note580

Cornuel, Madame, note740

Cotton, Nathaniel362

Cowley, Abraham260

Cowper, William413

Crabbe, George443

Cranch, Christopher P.653

Cranfield, note210

Crashaw, Richard258

Crawford, Anne673

Cristyne, note12

Crockett, David852

Croker, John W., note284

Cunningham, Allan537

Curran, John P.855

Curtius, Quintus, note25

D'Abrantes, Duc806

D'Abrantes, Madame, note718

Dalrymple, Sir John, note550

Dance, Charles677

Daniel, Samuel39

Dante769

Danton, note28

Darwin, Charles622

Darwin, Erasmus424

Darwin, Erasmus, note426

Davenant, Sir William217

Davie, Adam, note21

[ix]Davies, Scrope682

Davies, Sir John175

Davis, Jefferson679

Davis, Thomas O.680

De Benserade, Isaac794

Debrett, John, note432

Decatur, Stephen675

De Caux, note396

Deffand, Madame du801

Defoe, Daniel286

Dekker, Thomas181

De la Ferté, note430

De Ligne803

De L'Isle, Joseph R.804

Demodocus, note400

De Morgan, note290

Demosthenes855

Denham, Sir John257

Denman, Lord527

Dennis, John282

De Quincey, note365

Dibdin, Charles436

Dibdin, Thomas675

Dickens, Charles652

Dickinson, John426

Dickman, Franklin J., note589

Didacus Stella, note185

Diogenes Laertius757

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, note304

Dionysius the Elder700

Disraeli, Benjamin607

Dix, John A.678

Doddridge, Philip359

Dodsley, Robert671

Domett, Alfred642

Donne, John177

Dowling, Bartholomew641

Drake, Joseph Rodman573

Drayton, Michael40

Drennan, William855

Drummond, Thomas582

Drummond, William196

Drummond, William note170

Dryden, John267

Du Bartas780

Dufferin, Lady611

Dumas, Alexandre, note809

Duncombe, Lewis, note459

D'Urfey, note348

Dwight, Timothy674

Dyer, Edward22

Dyer, John358

Dyer ——672

Eastwick, note437

Edgeworth, Maria, note283

Edwards, Richard21

Edwards, Thomas671

Edwin, John439

Elliot, Jared, note392

Elliott, Jane393

Ellis, George, note175

Ellis, Henry675

Emerson, Ralph Waldo598

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, note511

Emmet, Robert675

English, Thomas Dunn680

Epictetus742

Erasmus, note3, 5, 216, 720

Estienne, Henri, note379

Euripides697

Euripides, note277

Everett, David459

Everett, Edward571

Faber, Frederick W.653

Fanshawe, Catherine M.674

Farquhar, George305

Fénelon, note353

Ferriar, John456

Field, Nathaniel670

Fielding, Henry362

Finch, Francis M.668

Fitz-Geffrey, Charles, note305

Fletcher, Andrew281

Fletcher, Julia A.642

Fletcher, John183

Fletcher, Phineas, note327

Foote, Samuel391

Ford, John670

Fordyce, James391

Fortescue, John7

Fouché, Joseph805

Fournier, note310

Fox, Charles J., note364

Fox, John, note484

Francis the First, note807

Franck, Richard, note305

Franklin, Benjamin359

Franklin, Kate682

Freneau, Philip443

Frere, J. Hookham462

Frothingham, Richard, note360

Fuller, Thomas221

Fuller, Thomas, note484

Gage, Thomas, note495

Garrick, David387

Garrison, William L.605

Garth, Samuel295

Garth, Samuel, note181

Gascoigne, George, note10

Gay, John347

[x]Getty, Rev. Dr., note631

Gibbon, Edward430

Gibbons, Thomas672

Gifford, Richard393

Goethe, Wolfgang von803

Goldsmith, Oliver394

Goldsmith, Oliver, note310, 592

Googe, Barnaby, note5, 7

Gorgias, note578

Gosson, Stephen, note731

Gower, John, note13

Grafton, Richard684

Granger, James, note395

Grant, Anne674

Grant, Ulysses S.664

Graves, Richard672

Graves, Richard, note295

Gray, Thomas381

Green, Matthew354

Greene, Albert G.596

Greene, Robert, note190

Greswell, note332

Greville, Mrs.389

Griffin, Gerald678

Gualtier, Phillippe, note64

Guarini, note495

Habington, William, note515

Hakewill, George683

Hakewill, George, note169

Hale, Edward E.681

Haliburton, Thomas C.580

Hall, Bishop182

Hall, Robert457

Halleck, Fitz-Greene561

Halliwell, James O.853

Halliwell, James O., note596

Hamilton, Alexander, note532

Hammond, J. H.678

Hannah, J., note22

Hare, Julius, note268

Harrington, Sir John39

Harrison, William684

Harte, Francis Bret669

Harvey, Stephen670

Hawker, Robert674

Hawker, Robert S., note687

Hayes, Edward, note588

Hayes, Rutherford B.665

Heath, Leonard666

Heber, Reginald535

Hegge, Robert, note181

Hemans, Felicia D.569

Hénault, note325

Hendyng, note7

Henry, Mathew282

Henry, Patrick429

Henshaw, Joseph263

Herbert, George204

Herodotus, note696, 807

Herrick, Robert201

Hervey, Thomas K.589

Hesiod692

Heywood, John8

Heywood, Thomas194

Hill, Aaron313

Hill, Rowland673

Hippocrates700

Hobbes, Thomas200

Hoffman, Charles F.678

Holcroft, Thomas673

Holland, Sir Richard38

Holmes, Oliver Wendell635

Home, John392

Hood, Thomas583

Hooker, Joseph680

Hooker, Richard31

Hooper, Ellen Sturgis654

Hopkins, Charles, note581

Hopkinson, Joseph465

Horace706

Horne, Bishop853

Horne, Richard H.604

Howard, Samuel672

Howell, James, note191, 208, 581

Howitt, Mary605

Hoyle, Edmund861

Hume, David854

Hume, David, note593, 685

Hunt, Leigh536

Hurd, Richard673

Hurdis, James454

Hutcheson, Francis856

Ingram, John K.681

Irving, Washington536

Jackson, Andrew458

James, G. P. R.678

James, Paul M.528

Jefferson, Thomas434

Jefferys, Charles611

Jerrold, Douglas597

Johnson, Andrew678

Johnson, Samuel365

Johnson, Samuel, note185, 294, 711

Jones, Sir William437

Jonson, Ben177

Juvenal721

Keats, John574

Keble, John569

Kemble, Frances Anne641

[xi]Kemble, J. P.445

Kempis, Thomas à7

Ken, Thomas278

Kenney, James676

Kenrick, William, note450

Kepler, John670

Key, Francis S.517

Key, T. H., note560

King, William, note217

Kinglake, John A.860

Kingsley, Charles664

Knight, Charles, note616

Knolles, Richard, note267

Knowles, James S.676

Knox, William561

Kotzebue, Von805

La Fontaine797

Lamb, Charles508

Lamb, Charles, note274

Landor, Walter S.511

Langford, G. W.683

Langhorne, John427

La Rochefoucauld794

Layard, Austen H.642

Lee, Henry445

Lee, Nathaniel281

Leighton, Archbishop, note379

Lemon, Mark679

Le Sage800

L'Estrange, Roger670

Leutsch and Schneidewin, note793

Ligne, Prince de803

Lincoln, Abraham622

Linley, George586

Linschoten, Hugh van861

Livy, note13

Lloyd, David, note310

Lockhart, John G.677

Lockhart, John G., note427, 490

Logan, John438

Logau, Friedrich von793

Longfellow, Henry W.612

Lovelace, Richard259

Lover, Samuel582

Lowe, John673

Lowell, James Russell656

Lowth, Robert672

Lucretius706

Lydgate, John, note5

Luther, Martin770

Lyly, John31

Lyttelton, Lord377

Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer606

Macaulay, Thomas B.589

Macaulay, Thomas B., note, 332, 610, 855

Mackay, Charles653

Mackintosh, James457

Mackintosh, James, note291

Macklin, Charles350

Madden, Samuel314

Mahon, Lord860

Mahon, Lord, note364, 474

Manners, Lord John680

Marcus Aurelius749

Marcy, William L.676

Markham, Gervase, note187

Marlowe, Christopher40

Marmion, Shakerley, note171

Martial722

Martin, Henri, note807

Marvell, Andrew262

Mason, William393

Massinger, Philip194

McMaster, John B., note435

Maule857

Mee, William682

Melchior, note171

Menander, note390

Merrick, James390

Meurier, Gabriel, note80

Michelangelo769

Mickle, William J.426

Middleton, Thomas172

Miller, William679

Milman, Henry Hart564

Milnes, Richard M.634

Milton, John223

Mimnermus699

Miner, Charles528

Molière797

Monnoye, Bernard de la, note400

Montagu, Mary Wortley350

Montagu, Mary Wortley, note461

Montaigne774

Montgomery, James496

Montgomery, Robert610

Montrose, Marquis of257

Moore, Clement C.527

Moore, Edward377

Moore, Thomas518

More, Hannah437

More, Sir Thomas, note30, 100

Morell, Thomas, note281

Morgan, M. H.860

Morris, Charles432

Morris, George P.595

Morton, Thomas457

Moss, Thomas433

Motherwell, William580

Muhlenberg, William A.678

Mulock, Dinah M.667

[xii]Münster, Ernst F., note807

Murphy, Arthur393

Nairne, Lady458

Napier, Sir W. F. P.537

Napoleon Bonaparte, note811

Napoleon, Louis, note810

Nash, Thomas861

Nelson, Horatio446

Newton, Isaac278

Noel, Thomas683

Norris, John281

Northbrooke, note17

Norton, Caroline E. S.679

O'Hara, Kane672

O'Hara, Theodore681

O'Keefe, John673

O'Kelley, Captain855

Oldham, John, note366

Oldys, William671

Oliphant, Thomas, note685

Omar Khayyám768

O'Meara, Barry E.675

Orrery, Roger B., note258

Ortin, Job, note359

Otway, Thomas280

Overbury, Sir Thomas193

Ovid707

Oxenstiern, note195

Paine, Robert Treat675

Paine, Thomas431

Paine, Thomas, note605

Paley, William673

Panat, Chevalier de, note811

Pardoe, Julia680, 860

Parker, Martyn176

Parker, Theodore639

Parnell, Thomas305

Pascal798

Pascal, note169

Payne, J. Howard568

Peele, George24, 184, 530

Percival, James G.677

Percy, Thomas404

Perry, Oliver H.676

Persius, note188, 305

Petrarch, note295

Phædrus715

Philips, Ambrose671

Philips, John671

Phillips, Charles677

Phillips, Wendell641

Philostratus, note179

Pierpont, John538

Pilpay691

Pinckney, Charles C.673

Piozzi, Madame, note560, 806

Pitt, Earl of Chatham364

Pitt, William453

Pitt, William (the younger)510

Plato, note317

Plautus700

Playford, John684

Pliny the Elder716

Pliny the Younger748

Plutarch722

Poe, Edgar A.640

Pollok, Robert588

Pomfret, John289

Pompadour, Madame de, note205

Pope, Alexander314

Pope, Walter670

Porter, Horace682

Porter, Mrs. David682

Porteus, Beilby425

Potter, Henry C.668

Powell, Sir John278

Praed, Winthrop M.595

Priestley, Joseph858

Prior, James, note412

Prior, Matthew287

Proclus, note740, 811

Procter, Bryan W.538

Publius Syrus708

Pulteney, William671

Quarles, Francis203

Quincy, Josiah, Jr.436

Quincy, Josiah505

Quintilian721

Quitard, note176

Rabelais770

Racine, note391, 704

Radcliffe, Ann456

Raleigh, Sir Walter25

Ramsay, Allan671

Randall, H. S.859

Ranke, Leopold, note770

Ransford, Edwin683

Raspe, note739

Ravenscroft, Thomas683

Ray, William, note216

Rhodes, William B.388

Richards, Amelia B., note533

Robinson, Mary674

Rochester, Earl of279

Rogers, Samuel455

[xiii]Roland, Madame804

Roscommon, Earl of278

Rousseau802

Rowe, Nicholas301

Roydon, Mathew23

Rumbold, Richard682

Russell, W. S.860

Saint Augustine767

Saint Simon, note189

Sala, George A., note463

Sales, Saint Francis de, note372

Salis, Von805

Sallust, note167

Salvandy, Comte de, note811

Sandys, Sir Edwin, note314

Sargent, Epes679

Savage, Richard354

Scarron, note216

Schelling, note807

Schidoni793

Schiller804

Scott, Sir Walter487

Scott, Sir Walter, note852

Scott, Winfield676

Sears, Edmund H.640

Sebastiani, General, note809

Sedaine, Michel J.803

Sedley, Charles671

Selden, John194

Selvaggi, note271

Seneca714

Sévigné, Madame de, note740, 801

Sewall, Harriet W.680

Sewall, Jonathan M.439

Seward, Thomas, note189

Seward, William H.595

Sewell, George671

Shaftesbury, Earl of, note578

Shakespeare, William42

Sharman, Julian, note12

Sheffield279

Shelley, Percy B.564

Shelley, Percy B., note592

Shenstone, William379

Sheres, Sir Henry, note13

Sherman, William T.681

Sheridan, R. Brinsley440

Shirley, James209

Sidney, Algernon264

Sidney, Sir Philip34

Silius Italicus, note207

Sirmond, John793

Sismondi, note807

Skelton, John8

Smart, Christopher, note363

Smith, Adam858

Smith, Alexander667

Smith, Captain John, note495

Smith, Edmund, note333

Smith, Horace517

Smith, James510

Smith, Samuel F.619

Smith, Seba568

Smith, Sydney459

Smollett, Tobias392

Smyth, William, note391

Socrates, note63

Somerville, William, note314

Sophocles696

Sophocles, note133

Sorbienne, note286

South, Robert, note310

Southerne, Thomas282

Southey, Robert506, 853

Southwell, Robert, note22

Sparks, Jared, note717

Spencer, Herbert681

Spencer, William R.464

Spenser, Edmund27

Sprague, Charles564

Staël, Madame de, note174, 807

Steele, Sir Richard297

Steers, Fanny682

Sterne, Laurence378

Sternhold, Thomas23

Stevens, George A.672

Stiles, Ezra859

Still, Bishop22

Stolberg, Christian, note503

Story, Joseph675

Stoughton, William266

Stowell, Lord437

Suckling, Sir John256

Suetonius, note307

Sumner, Charles859

Swift, Jonathan289

Tacitus747

Talfourd, Thomas N.577

Taney, Roger B.675

Tate and Brady851

Taylor, Bayard666

Taylor, Henry594

Taylor, Jane and Ann534

Taylor, Jeremy, note169, 193

Taylor, John670

Taylor, John, note20

Temple, Sir William266

Tennyson, Alfred623

Terence702

Tertullian756

[xiv]Theobald, Louis352

Theocritus, note349

Theognis694

Thomas, Frederick W.679

Thomson, James355

Thrale, Mrs.432

Thucydides, note726

Thurlow, Lord426

Tibullus, note106

Tickell, Thomas313

Tillotson, John266

Titus, Colonel, note352

Tobin, John463

Tolowiez, note767

Toplady, Augustus M.432

Tourneur, Cyril34

Townley, James380

Trumbull, John439

Tucker, Dean858

Tuke, Samuel670

Tupper, Martin F.640

Tusser, Thomas20

Uhland, Johann L.806

Unknown Authors707

Usteri, J. M.805

Valerius Maximus, note807

Vanbrugh, Sir John684

Van Buren, Martin, note364

Vandyk, H. S.678

Varro, note167

Vaughan, Henry263

Vauvenargues803

Vegetius, note425

Venning, Ralph262

Villon769

Virgil, note185, 720, 810

Volney, note592

Voltaire800

Voss, J. H., note811

Wade, J. A.594

Walker, William265

Wallace, Horace B., note361

Waller, Edmund219

Walpole, Horace389

Walpole, Horace, note592

Walpole, Sir Robert304

Walpole, Sir Robert, note389

Walton, Izaak206

Warburton, Thomas859

Warner, William38

Ward, Thomas857

Warton, Thomas403

Washington, George425

Watson, William855

Watts, Isaac301

Webster, Daniel529

Webster, John180

Welby, Amelia B.681

Wellington, Duke of463

Wells, William V.858

Wesley, Charles672

Wesley, John359

Whetstone, George, note14

Whewell, William, note169

White, Henry Kirke, note592

Whittier, John G.618

Wight, Rezin A.854

Wilde, Richard H.677

Willard, Emma676

Williams, Helen M.674

Williams, Roger, note208

Willis, Nathaniel P.655

Willis, Nathaniel P., note580

Wilson, Alexander860

Wilson, John, note558

Wilson, Mrs. C. B.677

Winslow, Edward, note283

Winthrop, John670

Winthrop, Robert C.638

Wither, George199

Wolcot, John431

Wolfe, Charles563

Wolfe, James673

Woodworth, Samuel537

Wordsworth, William465

Wotton, Sir Henry174

Wrother, Miss683

Wycherley, William, note452

Yalden, Thomas, note181

Yonge, Nicholas, note711

Young, Edward306

Young, Sir John, note177

Zamoyski, Jan, note810

Zouch, Thomas, note209

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · :3] This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every centuryNote 2 · :1] Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the RubiconNote 3 · :2] See Rabelais, page 771.Note 4 · :1] The same proverb existed in German:—Note 5 · :2] Tyrwhitt says this is taken from the Parabolae of Alanus de Insulis, who died in 1294,—Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum (DoNote 6 · :2] I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law.—Fisher Ames: On Biennial ElectionsNote 7 · [215:2] Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: Note 8 · :2] Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa (Nature made him, and then broke the mould).—Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, canto x. stanza 84.Note 9 · :1] Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make states, but men who are able to rely upon themselves.—Aristides: OrationsNote 10 · :2] Τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζων.—Aristophanes, as quoted in Lucian, Quom. Hist. sit conscrib. 41.Note 11 · :3] No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.—Aristotle: Problem, sect. 30.Note 12 · :1] Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. S. J. Arnold: Death of Nelson.Note 13 · :2] See Heywood, page 11.Note 14 · :3] He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he Note 15 · :2] Out of syght, out of mynd.—Googe: Eglogs. 1563.Note 16 · :1] Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams: "On the day of his death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the occasion. On being remindedNote 17 · :1] Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.—Isaac Barrow (1630-1677): Duty of ThanNote 18 · :2] Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For ShakespNote 19 · :1] On the authority of M. Cimber, of the Bibliothèque Royale, we owe this proverb to Chevalier Bayard: "Tel maître, tel valet."Note 20 · :1] There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thougNote 21 · :1] This line is from Sir John Beaumont's "Battle of Bosworth Field."Note 22 · :1] This line is from a poem entitled "To the Celebrated Beauties of the British Court," given in Bell's "Fugitive Poetry," vol. iii. p. 118Note 23 · :1] Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whoNote 24 · :1] The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing. Henry Constable: Sonnet. Whose noble praise DeservNote 25 · :1] For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good tourne we write it in duste.—Sir Thomas More: Note 26 · :3] Attributed to Mademoiselle Bertin, milliner to Marie Antoinette.Note 27 · :1] Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.—John Wesley (quoted): Journal, Feb. 12, 1772.Note 28 · :2] The oft-quoted lines,—Note 29 · :1] See Heywood, page 11.Note 30 · :2] In the Preface to Mr. Nichols's work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum is that of David KrNote 31 · :2] Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt (Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits Note 32 · :3] Sir William Jones gives a similar saying in India: "Words are the daughters of earth, and deeds are the sons of heaven."Note 33 · :2] See Chaucer, page 5.Note 34 · :1] Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis (All things change, and we change with them).—Matthais Borbonius: Deliciæ Poetarum Germanorum, iNote 35 · :1] Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors (What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect).—Horace: Epistle i. 1Note 36 · :6] To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.—Breton: Court and Country, 1618 (reprint, page 182).Note 37 · :1] Whereupon Wilkes is reported to have said, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He'll see you d——d firsNote 38 · :1] Le style est l'homme même (The style is the man himself).—Buffon: Discours de Réception (Recueil de l'Académie, 1750).Note 39 · :1] Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way?—Luke xxiv. 32.Note 40 · :1] On the 16th of April, 1521, Luther entered the imperial city [of Worms]. . . . On his approach . . . the Elector's chancellor entreated Note 41 · :1] See Johnson, page 370.Note 42 · :2] A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works collected and published after his death:—Note 43 · :3] It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.—Samuel Butler: Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler's ReNote 44 · :1] There is a very similar but anonymous copy in the British Museum. Additional MS. 15225, p. 85. And there is an imitation in J. SylvesterNote 45 · :1] Θνήσκειν μὴ λέγε τοὺς ἀγαθούς (Say not that the good die).—Callimachus: Epigram x.Note 46 · :2] Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiNote 47 · :5] Words engraved upon the monument erected to Cambronne at Nantes.Note 48 · :4] No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre.—Marshal Catinat (1637-1712).Note 49 · :1] Written in the time of Julius Cæsar, and by some ascribed to Catullus:Note 50 · :1] The twelve good rules were ascribed to King Charles I.: 1. Urge no healths. 2. Profane no divine ordinances. 3. Touch no state matters. Note 51 · :1] La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).—Charron: De la Sagesse, lNote 52 · :1] At length, fatigued with life, he bravely fell, And health with Boerhaave bade the world farewell. Church: The Choice (1754).Note 53 · :2] We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman.—Cibber: Love's Last Shift, act iv.Note 54 · :2] Home is home, though it be never so homely.—Clarke: Parœmiologia, p. 101. (1639.)Note 55 · :2] The gentleman [Mr. Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forciNote 56 · :3] Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. Christopher Codrington: Lines addressed to GarthNote 57 · :1] An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to anyNote 58 · :1] Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand.—Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850.)Note 59 · :1] He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas. Cranfield: Panegyric on Tom Coriate.Note 60 · :7] Rather to bowe than breke is profitable; Humylite is a thing commendable. The Morale Proverbs of Cristyne; translated from the French Note 61 · :4] That fortuitous concourse of atoms.—Review of Sir Robert Peel's Address. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270 (1835).Note 62 · :1] Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi (The deepest rivers flow with the least sound).—Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13.Note 63 · :6] Madame d'Abrantes relates that when Bonaparte was in Cairo he sent for a serpent-detecter (Psylli) to remove two serpents that had been Note 64 · :5] See Churchill, page 413.Note 65 · :4] De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace (Boldness, again boldness, and ever boldness).—Danton: Speech in the LegislativNote 66 · :3] Jove, thou regent of the skies.—Pope: The Odyssey, book ii. line 42.Note 67 · :2] Merry swithe it is in halle, When the beards waveth alle. Life of Alexander, 1312. This has been wrongly attributed to Adam Davie. TheNote 68 · :1] Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! Solid men of Boston, banish strong potations! Billy Pitt and the Farmer. From Debrett's AsNote 69 · :1] See Pope, page 329.Note 70 · :4] On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons (It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions).—Voltaire: Note 71 · :3] While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, all venom himself, of the wound he made liNote 72 · :1] Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleNote 73 · :1] All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue. Thomas Warton: Universal Love of Pleasure. De Quincey Note 74 · :1] Although Mr. Choate has usually been credited with the original utterance of the words "glittering generalities," the following quotatioNote 75 · :7] A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.—Herbert: Jacula Prudentum.Note 76 · :3] Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: "The contact with manners then is education; and this ThucydidesNote 77 · :3] This line frequently occurs in almost exactly the same shape among the minor poems of the time: "Not to be born, or, being born, to die.Note 78 · :5] General Sebastiani announced the fall of Warsaw in the Chamber of Deputies, Sept. 16, 1831: "Des lettres que je reçois de Pologne m'annoNote 79 · :2] The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.—Lewis Duncombe (1711-1730): De Minimis Maxima (translation).Note 80 · :2] O'er the hills and far away.—D'Urfey: Pills to purge Melancholy (1628-1723).Note 81 · :2] 'T was he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. Eastwick: Anvari Suhaili. (TranslatNote 82 · :1] Nature says best; and she says, Roar!—Edgeworth: Ormond, chap. v. (King Corny in a paroxysm of gout.)Note 83 · :1] Facts are stubborn things.—Elliot: Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35 (1747).Note 84 · :3] This song, often attributed to Shakespeare, is now confidently assigned to Barnfield; it is found in his collection of "Poems in Divers Note 85 · :1] Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. R. W. Emerson: May-Day and Other Pieces. Solution.Note 86 · :1] Also in Troilus and Cresseide, line 1587.Note 87 · :4] Of two evils the less is always to be chosen.—Thomas à Kempis: Imitation of Christ, book ii. chap. xii. Hooker: Polity, book v. chap. lxNote 88 · :4] Nulla dies abeat, quin linea ducta supersit.—Erasmus.Note 89 · :2] Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue (God measures the cold to the shorn lamb).—Henri Estienne (1594): Prémices, etc. p. 47.Note 90 · :4] Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.—Euripides: Hippolytus, 438.Note 91 · :3] Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. Johnson: Epitaph on Goldsmith. Il embelliNote 92 · :1] Leaving his country for his country's sake.—Fitz-Geffrey: The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, stanza 213 (1596).Note 93 · :3] When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praisNote 94 · :3] Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him; to promote commerce, and not betray it.—Lloyd: State Worthies (1665; edited by Note 95 · :5] "Indemnity for the past and security for the future."—Russell: Memoir of Fox, vol. iii. p. 345, Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland.Note 96 · [483:1] In obedience to the order of the Council of Constance (1415), the remains of Wickliffe were exhumed and burned to ashes, and these cNote 97 · :4] It was from the imperial camp near Pavia that Francis I., before leaving for Pizzighettone, wrote to his mother the memorable letter whiNote 98 · :2] Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.—Richard Franck: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694).Note 99 · [359:5] This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Note 100 · :4] A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, followingNote 101 · :1] The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but when beheld close they are rough.—Diogenes Laertius: Pyrrho.Note 102 · :6] As many men, so many minds.—Terence: Phormio, ii. 3.Note 103 · :1] The poet alluded to is Goethe. I know this from Lord Tennyson himself, although he could not identify the passage; and when I submitted Note 104 · [591:2] The same image was employed by Macaulay in 1824 in the concluding paragraph of a review of Mitford's Greece, and he repeated it in hNote 105 · :1] How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?—Shaftesbury: CharNote 106 · :3] Who that well his warke beginneth, The rather a good ende he winneth. Gower: Confessio Amantis.Note 107 · :3] When Davies asked for an explanation of "Luke's iron crown," Goldsmith referred him to a book called "Géographie Curieuse," and added thNote 108 · :5] And learn the luxury of doing good.—Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 22. Crabbe: Tales of the Hall, book iii. Graves: The Epicure.Note 109 · :3] There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs.Note 110 · [331:5] See Shakespeare, page 93.Note 111 · :2] Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim (One falls into Scylla in seeking to avoid Charybdis).—Phillippe Gualtier: Alexandreis, bookNote 112 · :2] The starres, bright centinels of the skies.—Habington: Castara, Dialogue between Night and Araphil.Note 113 · :1] As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell you that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the farther distance from Note 114 · :1] John Lee is dead, that good old man,— We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old drab coat All buttoned down before. To theNote 115 · :1] A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.—Alexander Hamilton.Note 116 · :5] A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.—Julius Hare: Guesses at Truth.Note 117 · :3] Robert Stephen Hawker incorporated these lines into "The Song of the Western Men," written by him in 1825. It was praised by Sir Walter Note 118 · :1] There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Cromwell. On a certain occasion, when his troops were about crossing a river to attack the eneNote 119 · :3] Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). This Latin hexameter, whichNote 120 · :2] The saying "Call no man happy before he dies" was ascribed to Solon. Herodotus, i. 32.Note 121 · :2] A Greek proverb. A Cadmean victory was one in which the victors suffered as much as their enemies.Note 122 · :1] I find that absence still increases love.—Charles Hopkins: To C. C.Note 123 · :3] Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind. Carew: Think not 'cause men flattering say. One hair of a womaNote 124 · :3] Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature.—Howell: Letters, book ii. letter xi.Note 125 · :2] Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.—Hume: History of England, Note 126 · :3] Hume: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8.Note 127 · :3] Dr. Johnson said Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to risNote 128 · :1] When the poem of "Cadenus and Vanessa" was the general topic of conversation, some one said, "Surely that Vanessa must be an extraordinaNote 129 · :8] No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.—Johnson: The Rambler, p. 150.Note 130 · :4] Durance vile.—W. Kenrick (1766): Falstaff's Wedding, act i. sc. 2. Burke: The Present Discontents.Note 131 · :1] What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.—T. H. Key (once Head Master of University College School). On the authority of F. JNote 132 · :2] For angling rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; . . . . . His hook was baited with a dragon's tailNote 133 · :4] Sir Francis Drake entered the harbour of Cadiz, April 19, 1587, and destroyed shipping to the amount of ten thousand tons lading. To useNote 134 · :4] Greatnesse on Goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for Fortune's ice, Vertue's ferme land. Knolles: History (under a portrNote 135 · :1] Our scanty mutton scrags on Fridays, and rather more savoury, but grudging, portions of the same flesh, rotten-roasted or rare, on the TNote 136 · :4] See Johnson, page 372.Note 137 · :3] See Herbert, page 206.Note 138 · :5] Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, An Habitation Enforced. Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress. Mathew Henry: Commentaries, Matthew xNote 139 · :2] This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, under which were engrNote 140 · :1] See Shakespeare, page 144.Note 141 · :4] We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders or can possibly meander leveNote 142 · :1] In Sebastian Munster's "Cosmography" there is a cut of a ship to which a whale was coming too close for her safety, and of the sailors tNote 143 · :4] Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the throne itself."—History of England, vol. v. p. 258.Note 144 · :1] It was on this occasion [the failure in energy of Lord Mar at the battle of Sheriffmuir] that Gordon of Glenbucket made the celebrated eNote 145 · :4] Carpet knights are men who are by the prince's grace and favour made knights at home. . . . They are called carpet knights because they Note 146 · :2] Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are suNote 147 · :1] This passage is thus paraphrased by John B. McMaster in his "History of the People of the United States" (ii. 586): "One sentence will uNote 148 · :2] Μή μοι γένοιθ' ᾶ βούλομ' ἀλλ' ἂ συμφέρει (Let not that happen which I wish, but that which is right).—Menander: Fragment.Note 149 · :1] Qui s'excuse, s'accuse (He who excuses himself accuses himself).—Gabriel Meurier: Trésor des Sentences. 1530-1601.Note 150 · :2] Written in imitation of "Chanson sur le fameux La Palisse," which is attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye:—Note 151 · :1] Lord Wharncliffe says, "The well-known sentence, almost a proverb, that 'this world consists of men, women, and Herveys,' was originallyNote 152 · :3] Rhyme nor reason.—Pierre Patelin, quoted by Tyndale in 1530. Farce du Vendeur des Lieures, sixteenth century. Peele: Edward I. ShakespeaNote 153 · :2] "Leads the way" in the stage editions, which contain various interpolations, among them—Note 154 · :1] Count Münster, Hanoverian envoy at St. Petersburg, discovered that Russian civilization is "merely artificial," and first published to ENote 155 · :7] See Gibbon, page 430.Note 156 · :4] This saying occurs in Louis Napoleon's speech to the Chamber of Commerce in Bordeaux, Oct. 9, 1852.Note 157 · :7] One swallowe prouveth not that summer is neare.—Northbrooke: Treatise against Dancing. 1577.Note 158 · :1] Nothing in poverty so ill is borne As its exposing men to grinning scorn. Oldham (1653-1683): Third Satire of Juvenal.Note 159 · :1] Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. Orrery: Prologues (according to Johnson). Should sNote 160 · :1] Dum vivimus vivamus (Let us live while we live).—Orton: Life of Doddridge.Note 161 · :2] Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.—Oxenstiern (1583-1654).Note 162 · :1] Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.—Plutarch: On Banishment.Note 163 · :4] This saying is attributed to Talleyrand. In a letter of the Chevalier de Panat to Mallet du Pan, January, 1796, it occurs almost literalNote 164 · :2] Qui vino indulget, quemque alea decoquit, ille In venerem putret (He who is given to drink, and he whom the dice are despoiling, is theNote 165 · :4] I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.—Petrarch: Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life.Note 166 · :1] Ἐμοὶ δὲ μόνοις πρόπινε τοῖς ὄμμασιν. . . . Εἰ δὲ βούλει, τοῖς χείλεσι προσφέρουσα, πλήρου φιλημάτων τὸ ἔκπωμα, κaὶ οὕτως δίδουNote 167 · :2] For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.—Piozzi: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, p. 149.Note 168 · :1] This saying, "Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vécu avec elle," is assigned to Constant by A. Hayward in his Introduction to the "AutobNote 169 · :4] After the war, aid.—Greek proverb.Note 170 · :2] When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitatioNote 171 · :3] I am the things that are, and those that are to be, and those that have been. No one ever lifted my skirts; the fruit which I bore was tNote 172 · :2] Proclus: Commentary on Euclid's Elements, book ii. chap. iv.Note 173 · :2] 'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and Note 174 · :2] Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte (I fear God, dear Abner, and I have no other fear).—Racine: Athalie, act i. scNote 175 · :3] Extreme law, extreme injustice, is now become a stale proverb in discourse.—Cicero: De Officiis, i. 33.Note 176 · :1] In the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (Rudolphe Erich Raspe), stories gathered from various sources, is found the story of sound beingNote 177 · :2] The martial airs of England Encircle still the earth. Amelia B. Richards: The Martial Airs of England.Note 178 · :2] Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'épée (So far had the pen under the king the superiority over the sword).—Saint Simon: MéNote 179 · :2] This phrase was first used by the Duke of Wellington in a letter, about 1839 or 1840.—Sala: Echoes of the Week, in London Illustrated NeNote 180 · :1] See Herbert, page 205.Note 181 · :2] Every man is the architect of his own fortune.—Pseudo-Sallust: Epist. de Rep. Ordin. ii. 1.Note 182 · :5] Words uttered by Comte de Salvandy (1796-1856) at a fete given by the Duke of Orleans to the King of Naples, 1830.Note 183 · [313:2] He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.—Montaigne: Essays, book i. chap. ix.Note 184 · :6] Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music. . . . If architecture in general is frozen music.—Schelling: PhiloNote 185 · :1] Græcia Mæonidam, jactet sibi Roma Maronem, Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem (Greece boasts her Homer, Rome can Virgil claim; EnglNote 186 · :4] See Gibbon, page 430.Note 187 · :3] Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Anonymous. Great Homer's birthplace sevenNote 188 · :2] The origin of the word "sleveless," in the sense of unprofitable, has defied the most careful research. It is frequently found allied toNote 189 · :1] Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.—Sir H. Sheres: Satyr on the Sea Officers. Tom Brown: Æneus Sylvius's Letter. Dryden: EpiloNote 190 · :1] Virtue is her own reward.—Dryden: Tyrannic Love, act iii. sc. 1.Note 191 · :1] Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier—white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, AndNote 192 · :2] Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.—Edmund Smith: Phædra and Hippolytus, act i. sc. 1.Note 193 · :2] I will play the swan and die in music.—Othello, act v. sc. 2.Note 194 · :1] A short saying oft contains much wisdom.—Sophocles: Aletes, frag. 99.Note 195 · :3] Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.—Sorbienne (1610-1670).Note 196 · :1] Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any Note 197 · :3] A happy accident.—Madame de Staël: L' Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.Note 198 · :2] And Iliad and Odyssey Rose to the music of the sea. Thalatta, p. 133. (From the German of Stolberg.)Note 199 · :1] Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorNote 200 · :2] The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.—Advancement of Learning (ed. Dewey).Note 201 · :1] Ignorance is the mother of devotion.—Jeremy Taylor: To a Person newly Converted (1657).Note 202 · :8] God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.—John Taylor: Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630). Ray: Proverbs. Garrick: Epigram on Goldsmith's RetNote 203 · :2] Ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.)—Theocritus: Idyl iv. 42.Note 204 · :1] 'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certaiNote 205 · :1] Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter (Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers).—Tibullus: iii. 6, 49.Note 206 · :2] I hope, said Colonel Titus, we shall not be wise as the frogs to whom Jupiter gave a stork for their king. To trust expedients with suchNote 207 · :7] Translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and wrongly called by him a translation from Omar Khayyám.Note 208 · :5] Inserit se tantis viris mulier alienigeni sanguinis: quæ a Philippo rege temulento immerenter damnata, Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, Note 209 · :3] Illustrious predecessor.—Burke: The Present Discontents.Note 210 · :4] God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. Cowley: The Garden, Essay v. God made the country, and man made the town. Cowper: Note 211 · :4] Qui desiderat pacem præparet bellum (Who would desire peace should be prepared for war).—Vegetius: Rei Militari 3, Prolog.Note 212 · :4] A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.—Garrick: Prologue on quitting the stage.Note 213 · :3] See Shakespeare, page 46. Also Lover, page 583.Note 214 · [809:6] See Ovid, page 707.Note 215 · :6] Attributed to Luther, but more probably a saying of J. H. Voss (1751-1826), according to Redlich, "Die poetischen Beiträge zum WaudsbeckNote 216 · :1] Byron's European fame is the best earnest of his immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.—Horace BinneyNote 217 · :1] The pretty Fanny Macartney.—Walpole: Memoirs.Note 218 · :8] Whylst grass doth grow, oft sterves the seely steede.—Whetstone: Promos and Cassandra. 1578.Note 219 · :1] William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his "Worthies" (Suffolk) the "Æsculapius of our age." He died in 1621. This first appeared in thNote 220 · :4] All her innocent thoughts Like rose-leaves scatter'd. John Wilson: On the Death of a Child. (1812.)Note 221 · :4] Bread is the staff of life.—Swift: Tale of a Tub.Note 222 · :2] I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better.—Wycherley: The Plaindealer, act. i. sc. 1.Note 223 · :9] Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.—Du Bartas: Divine Weekes and Workes, part ii. Second Weeke.Note 224 · :4] O rare Ben Jonson!—Sir John Young: Epitaph.Note 225 · :6] A motto adopted by Thiers for the "Nationale," July 1, 1803. In the beginning of the seventeenth century Jan Zamoyski in the Polish parlNote 226 · :1] In 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: "Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in sm
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