Note 99 — Chapter XI · 1860-1861 (continued 2)
Reading edition
It is curious that these are the very words which (as a translation from the Greek) Robert Browning used ten years later as the motto of his study of Louis Napoleon in 'Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau'; but the 'crowning' was of a very different kind then.
'Attempting one more labour, in a trice, Alack, with ills I crowned the edifice.'