could Le Sage's demon's gift
Be realiz'd at my desire,
This night my trembling form he'd lift,
To place it on St.
Be realiz'd at my desire,
This night my trembling form he'd lift,
To place it on St.
Byron
Coleridge wrote this sentence, "As he never dropped the
mask, so he too often used the poisoned dagger of the
assassin. "--_Miscellanies_, etc. , by S. T. Coleridge, ed. T. Asle, 1885,
p. 341. ]
[hn]
_My charge is upon record and will last_
_Longer than will his lamentation_. --[MS. erased. ]
[544] {516}[John Horne Tooke (1736-1812), as an opponent of the American
War, and as a promoter of the Corresponding Society, etc. ; and Benjamin
Franklin (1706-1790), as the champion of American Independence, would
have been cited as witnesses against George III. ]
[545] [In the _Diable Boiteux_ (1707) of Le Sage, Don Cleofas, clinging
to the cloak of Asmodeus, is carried through the air to the summit of
San Salvador. Compare--
"Oh!
could Le Sage's demon's gift
Be realiz'd at my desire,
This night my trembling form he'd lift,
To place it on St. Mary's spire. "
_Granta, a Medley_, stanza 1. , _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 56, note 2. ]
[546] ["But what he most detested, what most filled him with disgust,
was the settled, determined malignity of a renegado. "--_Speech of
William Smith, M. P. , in the House of Commons_, March 14, 1817. (See,
too, for the use of the word "renegado," _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii.
488, note i. )]
[547] [For the "weight" of Southey's quartos, compare Byron's note (1)
to _Hints from Horace_, line 657, and a variant of lines 753-756. "Thus
let thy ponderous quarto steep and stink" (_Poetical Works_, 1898, i.
435, 443). ]
[ho] {517}_And drawing nigh I caught him at a libel_. --[MS.
mask, so he too often used the poisoned dagger of the
assassin. "--_Miscellanies_, etc. , by S. T. Coleridge, ed. T. Asle, 1885,
p. 341. ]
[hn]
_My charge is upon record and will last_
_Longer than will his lamentation_. --[MS. erased. ]
[544] {516}[John Horne Tooke (1736-1812), as an opponent of the American
War, and as a promoter of the Corresponding Society, etc. ; and Benjamin
Franklin (1706-1790), as the champion of American Independence, would
have been cited as witnesses against George III. ]
[545] [In the _Diable Boiteux_ (1707) of Le Sage, Don Cleofas, clinging
to the cloak of Asmodeus, is carried through the air to the summit of
San Salvador. Compare--
"Oh!
could Le Sage's demon's gift
Be realiz'd at my desire,
This night my trembling form he'd lift,
To place it on St. Mary's spire. "
_Granta, a Medley_, stanza 1. , _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 56, note 2. ]
[546] ["But what he most detested, what most filled him with disgust,
was the settled, determined malignity of a renegado. "--_Speech of
William Smith, M. P. , in the House of Commons_, March 14, 1817. (See,
too, for the use of the word "renegado," _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii.
488, note i. )]
[547] [For the "weight" of Southey's quartos, compare Byron's note (1)
to _Hints from Horace_, line 657, and a variant of lines 753-756. "Thus
let thy ponderous quarto steep and stink" (_Poetical Works_, 1898, i.
435, 443). ]
[ho] {517}_And drawing nigh I caught him at a libel_. --[MS.
