Compare--
"Nor yet suppress the generous sigh.
"Nor yet suppress the generous sigh.
Byron
it was _no_ dream!
Here, reader, will we pause:--if there's no harm in
This first--you'll have, perhaps, a second "Carmen. "
B. J^n 10^th^ 1823.
FOOTNOTES:
[dv] {535} _Annus Mirabilis_. --MS.
[253] [It has been suggested by Dr. Garnett (late keeper of the Printed
Books in the British Museum) that the motto to _The Age of Bronze_ may,
possibly, contain a reference to the statue of Achilles, "inscribed by
the women of England to Arthur, Duke of Wellington, and his brave
companions in arms," which was erected in Hyde Park, June 18, 1822. ]
[dw] {541} _Want nothing of the little, but their_ will. --[MS. ]
[254] [_Measure for Measure_, act ii. sc. 2, line 121. ]
[255] [Fox used to say, "_I_ never want _a_ word, but Pitt never wants
_the_ word. "]
[256] [The grave of Fox, in Westminster Abbey is within eighteen inches
of that of Pitt.
Compare--
"Nor yet suppress the generous sigh.
Because his rival slumbers nigh;
Nor be thy _requiescat_ dumb,
Lest it be said o'er Fox's tomb.
Where,--taming thought to human pride! --
The mighty chiefs sleep side by side.
Drop upon Fox's grave the tear,
'Twill trickle to his rival's bier," etc.
_Marmion_, by Sir Walter Scott, Introduction to
Canto I. lines 125-128, 184-188.
Compare, too, Macaulay on Warren Hastings: "In that temple of silence
and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried,
in the Great Abbey . . . the dust of the illustrious accused should have
mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to
be. "--_Critical and Historical Essays_, 1843, iii. 465. ]
[257] {542}[The Cleopatra whose mummy is preserved in the British Museum
was a member of the Theban Archon family. Her date was _circ.
Here, reader, will we pause:--if there's no harm in
This first--you'll have, perhaps, a second "Carmen. "
B. J^n 10^th^ 1823.
FOOTNOTES:
[dv] {535} _Annus Mirabilis_. --MS.
[253] [It has been suggested by Dr. Garnett (late keeper of the Printed
Books in the British Museum) that the motto to _The Age of Bronze_ may,
possibly, contain a reference to the statue of Achilles, "inscribed by
the women of England to Arthur, Duke of Wellington, and his brave
companions in arms," which was erected in Hyde Park, June 18, 1822. ]
[dw] {541} _Want nothing of the little, but their_ will. --[MS. ]
[254] [_Measure for Measure_, act ii. sc. 2, line 121. ]
[255] [Fox used to say, "_I_ never want _a_ word, but Pitt never wants
_the_ word. "]
[256] [The grave of Fox, in Westminster Abbey is within eighteen inches
of that of Pitt.
Compare--
"Nor yet suppress the generous sigh.
Because his rival slumbers nigh;
Nor be thy _requiescat_ dumb,
Lest it be said o'er Fox's tomb.
Where,--taming thought to human pride! --
The mighty chiefs sleep side by side.
Drop upon Fox's grave the tear,
'Twill trickle to his rival's bier," etc.
_Marmion_, by Sir Walter Scott, Introduction to
Canto I. lines 125-128, 184-188.
Compare, too, Macaulay on Warren Hastings: "In that temple of silence
and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried,
in the Great Abbey . . . the dust of the illustrious accused should have
mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to
be. "--_Critical and Historical Essays_, 1843, iii. 465. ]
[257] {542}[The Cleopatra whose mummy is preserved in the British Museum
was a member of the Theban Archon family. Her date was _circ.
