Chapter XIII
Reading edition
April 5, 1825. Numbered XIV
Note. Madame Pasta. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, pp. 324, et seq.
176. In summer shade [yield him], in winter fire. Pope, Ode on Solitude.
Maritorneses. From the name of the servant wench in Don Quixote, who had hair like a horse’s tail.
177. A thing of life. Byron’s Corsair, Canto I. 3.
Fit for speed succinct. Paradise Lost, III. 643.
Mark how a plain tale shall put them down. 1 King Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4.
178. Dr. S. Dr. Stoddart. See ante, note to p. 142.
Famous poet’s pen. Cf. Spenser’s Verses to the Earl of Essex.
182. M. Martine’s Death of Socrates. Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine’s (1791–1869) work was published in 1823.
A nation of shopkeepers. See vol. I. The Round Table, note to p. 150.
M. de la Place. Pierre Antoine de la Place (1707–1793) translated Tom Jones. The third edition of 1751 is in the British Museum.
183. L. H. Leigh Hunt.