See Moore’s “Fum and Hum, the Two Birds of Royalty,” appended to his Fudge Family. —Editor ↩
Lady Caroline Lamb and Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster. —Editor ↩
—their caps and curls at Dukes.
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The Congress at Verona, in 1822. See the Introduction to The Age of Bronze, Poetical Works, 1891, V 537–540. —Editor ↩
2 Henry IV, act IV sc. 3, line 117. —Editor ↩
Hor., Od. I xi line 8. —Editor ↩
Macbeth, act V sc. 5, line 24. —Editor ↩
1 Henry IV, act II sc. 4, line 463. —Editor ↩
See the Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes, from the New Atalantis, 1709, a work in which the authoress, Mrs. Manley, satirizes the distinguished characters of her day. Warburton (Works of Pope, ed. 1751, I 244) calls it “a famous book … full of court and party scandal, and in a loose effeminacy of style and sentiment, which well suited the debauched taste of the better vulgar.” Pope also alludes to it in the Rape of the Lock, III 165, 166—
“As long as Atalantis shall be read,
Or the small pillow grace a lady’s bed.”
And Swift, in his ballad on “Corinna” (stanza 8)—
“Her common-place book all gallant is,
Works, 1824, XII 302
Of scandal now a cornucopia,
She pours it out in Atalantis,
Or memoirs of the New Utopia.”
—Editor ↩
Oct. 17, 1822. [—MS.] —Editor ↩
See letter to Douglas Kinnaird, dated Genoa, January 18, 1823. —Editor ↩
Johnson would not believe that “a complete miser is a happy man.”
“That,” he said, “is flying in the face of all the world, who have called an avaricious man a miser, because he is miserable. No, sir; a man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.”
—Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 1876, p. 605
—Editor ↩
The Descamisados, or Sansculottes of the Spanish Revolution of 1820–1823. For Spanish “Liberals,” see Quarterly Review, April, 1823, vol. XXIX pp. 270–276. —Editor ↩
Hamlet, act I sc. 1, line 116. —Editor ↩
See The Age of Bronze, line 678, sq., Poetical Works, 1901, V 573, note 3. —Editor ↩
Jacques Laffitte (1767–1844), as Governor of the Bank of France, advanced sums to Parisians to meet their enforced contributions to the allies, and, in 1817, advocated liberal measures as a Deputy. —Editor ↩
Were not worth one whereon their profile shines.
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“They say that ‘Knowledge is Power’;—I used to think so; but I now know that they meant Money … every guinea is a philosopher’s stone, or at least his touch-stone. You will doubt me the less, when I pronounce my pious belief—that Cash is Virtue.”
—Letter to Kinnaird, February 6, 1822, Letters, 1901, VI 11
—Editor ↩
Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto III stanza II lines 4–6. —Editor ↩
See Godwin’s Essay Of Population, 1820 (pp. 18, 19, et passim), in which he renews his attack on Malthus’s Essay on the Principles of Population. —Editor ↩
“We have no notion that Lord B[yron] had any mischievous intention in these publications—and readily acquit him of any wish to corrupt the morals, or impair the happiness of his readers … but it is our duty … to say, that much of what he has published appears to us to have this tendency. … How opposite to this is the system, or the temper, of the great author of Waverley!”
—Edinburgh Review, February, 1822, vol. 36, p. 451
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—for his moral pen
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Held up to me by Jeffrey as example.
Of which with profit—as you’ll soon see by a sample.
In the case of Murray V Benbow (February 9, 1822), the Lord Chancellor (Lord Eldon) refused the motion for an injunction to restrain the defendant from publishing a pirated edition of Lord Byron’s poem of Cain (Jacob’s Reports, p. 474, note). Hence (see var. I) the allusion to “Law” and “Equity.” The “suit” and the “appeal” (vide Reports) refer to legal proceedings taken, or intended to be taken, with regard to certain questions arising out of the disposition of property under Lady Noel’s will. (See letters to Charles Hanson, September 21, November 30, 1822, Letters, 1901, VI 115, 146.) —Editor ↩
That suit in Chancery—have a Chancery suit—
In right good earnest—also an appeal
Before the Lords, whose Chancellor’s more acute
In Law than Equity—as I can feel
Because my Cases put his Lordship to ’t
And—though no doubt ’tis for the Public weal,
His Lordship’s Justice is not that of Solomon—
Not that I
