[“I am not sure it was not St. Francis who had the wife of snow—in that case the line must run, ‘St. Francis back to reason.’ ”
—[MS. M]
For the seven snowballs, of which “the greatest” was his wife, see Life of “St. Francis of Assisi” (The Golden Legend (edited by F. S. Ellis), 1900, V 221). See, too, the Lives of the Saints, etc., by the Rev. Alban Butler, 1838, II 574.] ↩
The sorceress in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata. The story of Armida and Rinaldo forms the plot of operas by Glück and Rossini. —Editor ↩
Thinking God might not understand the case.
—[MS. M, Revise]
“Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante.”
Dante, Inferno, canto V line 138
—Editor ↩
“Conscienzia m’assicura,
La buona compagnia che l’uom francheggia
Sotto l’osbergo del sentirsi pura.”
Inferno, canto XXVIII lines 115–117
—Editor ↩
Deemed that her thoughts no more required control.
—[MS.]
See Ovid, Metamorph., VII 9, sq. —Editor ↩
Campbell’s Gertrude of Wyoming—(I think)—the opening of Canto Second [Part III stanza I lines 1–4]—but quote from memory. ↩
See Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, chap. I (ed. 1847, I 14, 15); and “Dejection: An Ode,” lines 86–93. —Editor ↩
I say this by the way—so don’t look stern.
—[MS.]
But if you’re angry, reader, pass it by.
Juan Boscan, of Barcelona (1500–1544), in concert with his friend Garcilasso, Italianized Castilian poetry. He was the author of the Leandro, a poem in blank verse, of canzoni, and sonnets after the model of Petrarch, and of The Allegory.—History of Spanish Literature, by George Ticknor, 1888, I 513. —Editor ↩
Garcias Lasso or Garcilasso de la Vega (1503–1536), of a noble family at Toledo, was a warrior as well as a poet, “now seizing on the sword and now the pen.” After serving with distinction in Germany, Africa, and Provence, he was killed at Muy, near Frejus, in 1536, by a stone, thrown from a tower, which fell on his head as he was leading on his battalion. He was the author of thirty-seven sonnets, five canzoni, and three pastorals.—Vide ibidem, pp. 522–535. —Editor ↩
A real wittol always is suspicious,
—[MS.]
But always also hunts in the wrong place.
Change horses every hour from night till noon.
—[MS.]
Except the promises of true theology.
—[MS.]
“Oh, Susan! I’ve said, in the moments of mirth,
“The Catalogue,” Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little, 1803, p. 128
What’s devotion to thee or to me?
I devoutly believe there’s a heaven on earth,
And believe that that heaven’s in thee.”
—Editor ↩
She stood on Guilt’s steep brink, in all the sense
—[MS.]
And full security of Innocence.
To leave these two young people then and there.
—[MS.]
“Age Xerxes … eo usque luxuria gaudens, ut edicto praemium ei proponeret, qui novum voluptatis genus reperisset.”
—Val. Max, De Dictis, etc., lib. IX cap. 1, ext. 3 —Editor
“You certainly will be damned for all this scene.”
—[H.]
—Editor ↩
Compare Childe Harold, Canto IV stanza III line 2, Poetical Works, II 329, note 3. —Editor ↩
Our coming, nor look brightly till we come.
—[MS.]
Sweet is a lawsuit to the attorney—sweet, etc.
—[MS.]
So, too, Falstaff, 1 Henry IV, act II sc. 2, lines 79, 80. —Editor ↩
Who’ve made us wait—God knows how long already,
—[MS.]
For an entailed estate, or country-seat,
Wishing them not exactly damned, but dead—he
Knows nought of grief, who has not so been worried—
’Tis strange old people don’t like to be buried.
Byron has not been forgotten at Harrow, though it is a bend of the Cam (Byron’s Pool), not his favourite Duck Pool (now “Ducker”) which bears his name. —Editor ↩
The reference is to the metallic tractors of Benjamin Charles Perkins, which were advertised as a “cure for all disorders, Red Noses,” etc. Compare English Bards, etc., lines 131, 132—
“What varied wonders tempt us as they pass!
See Poetical Works, 1898, I 307, note 3
The Cow-pox, Tractors, Galvanism, and Gas.”
—Editor ↩
Edward Jenner (1749–1823) made his first experiments in vaccination, May 14, 1796. Napoleon caused his soldiers to be vaccinated, and imagined that the English would be gratified by his recognition of Jenner’s discovery.
Sir William Congreve (1772–1828) invented “Congreve rockets” or shells in 1804. They were used with great effect at the battle of Leipzig, in 1813. —Editor ↩
“Mon cher ne touchez pas à la petite Vérole.”
—[H.]—[Revise]
—Editor ↩
Experiments in galvanism were made on the body of Forster the murderer, by Galvani’s nephew, Professor Aldini, January and February, 1803. —Editor ↩
“Put out these lines, and keep the others.”
—[H.]—[Revise]
—Editor ↩
Sir Humphry Davy, P.R.S. (1778–1829), invented the safety-lamp in 1815. —Editor ↩
In a critique of An Account of the Empire of Marocco. … To which is added an … account of Tombuctoo, the great Emporium of Central Africa, by James Grey Jackson, London, 1809, the reviewer comments on the author’s pedantry in correcting “the common orthography of African names.”
“We do not,” he writes, “greatly object to … Fas for Fez, or even Timbuktu for Tombuctoo, but Marocco for Morocco is a little too much.”
—Edinburgh Review, July, 1809 vol. XIV p. 307
—Editor
