Note 36 — PHILIPPIC ON A MODERN EPIC.

l. 9. Fierce hyena—Cooler reflection, and a long experience of the mischiefs resulting from the sanguinary system which this government has unwarned pursued through the last 14 years, have justified this Poet’s representation of Henry the Fifth’s conduct in invading France, and convinced me that the deprecation in Joan of Arc of monarchical ambition and rapacity, under that proud and specious term Military Glory, proceeded from benevolence to the Human race, and from a spirit of justice too firm to be warped by the vanity of national enthusiasm.—Anna Seward, Sept. 1807.