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[LG] {458}Were not worth one whereon their profile shines.—[MS. erased.]
[620] [Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto III. stanza ii. lines 4-6.]
—— for his moral pen
Held up to me by Jeffrey as example.
Of which with profit—as you'll soon see by a sample.—[MS. erased.]
[LJ] He played and paid, made love without much sin.—[MS. erased.]
[LK] {463}Themselves on seldom yielding to temptation.—[MS. erased.]
[628] {464}[Henry Hallam (1778-1859) published his View of the State of Europe in the Middle Ages in 1818.]
[LL] {465}A drunken Gentleman of forty's sure.—[MS.]
[629] This line may puzzle the commentators more than the present generation.
If he can hiccup nonsense at a ball.
or, If he goes after dinner to a ball.-[MS. erased.]
[630] {466}[As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7, line 156; and Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2, lines, 97, 98.]
[LN] But first of little Leilah——.—[MS.]
[631] [For the allusion to "unsunned snows," vide ante, p. 275, note 1.]
[632] {467}[The reference may be to Hobhouse and the "Zoili of Albemarle Street," who did their best to "tutor" him with regard to "blazing indiscretions" in Don Juan.]
That—but I will not listen, by your leave,
Unto a single syllable——.—[MS.]
[633] [For another instance of this curious mistake, see letter to Hodgson, December 8, 1811, Letters, 1898, ii. 85; et ibid., p. 31, note 1.]
[LP] {469}
Painted and gilded—or, as it will tell
More Muse-like—say—like Cytherea's shell.—[MS.]
[634] {470}[Vide ante, Preface to Cantos VI., VII., and VIII., p. 266.]
[635] ["Enfin partout la bonne société régle tout."—Voltaire.]
[636] {471}["This game originated, I believe, in Germany.... It is called the game of the goose, because at every fourth and fifth compartment of the table in succession a goose is depicted; and if the cast thrown by the player falls upon a goose, he moves forward double the number of his throw" (Sports and Pastimes, etc., by Joseph Strutt, 1801, p. 250).
Goldsmith, in his Deserted Village, among other "parlour splendours," mentions "the twelve good rules, the royal game of goose."]
[LQ] {472}
Most young beginners may be taken so,
But those who have been a little used to roughing
Know how to end this half-and-half flirtation.—[MS. erased.]
[637] ["I'll grow a talker for this gear."
Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 1, line 110.]
[LR] {473}Country where warm young people——.—[MS. erased.]
[638] [Pope and Scott use the quasi-contracted "gynocracy" for "gynæcocracy." (See N. Engl. Dict.)]
Of white cliffs—and white bosoms—and blue eyes—
And stockings—virtues, loves and Chastities.—[MS. erased.]
[639] {474}[Hor., Epist., lib. 1, ep. xiv. line 43. The meaning is that Europe makes but little progress in the discovery and settlement of Africa, and, as it were, "ploughs the sands."]
Though many thousands both of birth and pluck too,
Have ventured past the jaws of Moor and Tiger.[*]
[*]Note. By particular licence, "positively for the last time, by desire," etc., to be pronounced "tydger." Such is what Gifford calls "the necessity of rhyming."—[MS. erased.]
[640] ["Though many degrees nearer our own fair and blue-eyed beauties in complexion ... yet no people ever lost more by comparison than did the white ladies of Moorzuk [capital of Fezzan] with the black ones of Bornou and Soudan."—Narrative of Travels ... in Northern and Central Africa, 1822-24, by Denham, Clapperton, and Oudney, 1828, ii. 133.]
[LU] {475}Above, all sunshine, and, below, all ice.—[MS. erased.]
[641] [Compare Prisoner of Chillon, lines 82-85, Poetical Works, 1901, iv. 17.]
[642] The Russians, as is well known, run out from their hot baths to plunge into the Neva; a pleasant practical antithesis, which it seems does them no harm.
[LV] {476}But once there (few have felt this more than I).—[MS. erased.]
[643] [Compare Childe Harold, Canto II. stanza lviii. line 9, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 59, note 1.]
[644] {477}[See Plutarch's Caius Marius, Langhorne's translation, 1838, pp. 304, 305.]
[LW] That Lady who is not at home to all.—[MS. erased.]
[645] {478}For a description and print of this inhabitant of the polar region and native country of the Aurorae Boreales, see Sir E. Parry's Voyage In Search of a North-West Passage, [1821, p. 257. The print of the Musk-Bull is drawn and engraved by W. Westall, A.R.A., from a sketch by Lieut. Beechy. He is a "fearful wild-fowl!"]
[646] [Charles, second Earl Grey, born March 13, 1764, succeeded to the peerage in 1807, died July 17, 1847.]
[647] [William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, born November 15, 1708, died May 11, 1778.]
[648] ["His person was undoubtedly cast by Nature in an elegant and pleasing mould, of a just height, well-proportioned, and with due regard to symmetry.... His countenance was handsome and prepossessing.... His manners were captivating, noble, and dignified, yet unaffectedly condescending.... Homer, as well as Virgil, was familiar to the Prince of Wales; and his memory, which was very tenacious, enabled him to cite with graceful readiness the favourite passages of either poet."—The Historical ... Memoirs of Sir N.W. Wraxall, 1884, v. 353, 354.]
[649] ["Waving myself, let me talk to you of the Prince Regent. He ordered me to be presented to him at a ball; and after some sayings peculiarly pleasing from royal lips, as to my own attempts, he talked to me of you and your immortalities; he preferred you to every other bard past and present.... He spoke alternately of Homer and yourself, and seemed well acquainted with both.... [All] this was conveyed in language which would only suffer by my attempting to transcribe it, and with a tone and taste which gave me a very high idea of his abilities and accomplishments, which I had hitherto considered as confined to manners certainly superior to those of any living gentleman."—Letter to Sir Walter Scott, July 6, 1812, Letters, 1898, ii. 134.]
[650] {479}B. 10bre 7th 1822.—[MS.]
A sculptor projected to hew Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander, with a city in one hand, and, I believe, a river in his pocket, with various other similar devices. But Alexander's gone, and Athos remains, I trust ere long to look over a nation of freemen.
[It was an architect named Stasicrates who proposed to execute this imperial monument. But Alexander bade him leave Mount Athos alone. As it was, it might be christened "Xerxes, his Folly," and, for his part, he preferred to regard Mount Caucasus, and the Himalayas, and the river Don as the symbolic memorials of his acts and deeds.—Plutarch's Moralia. "De Alexandri Fortuna et Virtute," Orat. II. cap. ii.]
[651] {480}[The "Political Economy" Club was founded in April, 1821. James Mill, Thomas Tooke, and David Ricardo were among the original members, See Political Economy Club, Revised Report, 1876, p. 60.]
