Then your Blowing will wax gallows haughty, That her Jack may be regular weight." If there be any gemman so ignorant as to require a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pas tor and master, John Jackson, Esq., Professor of Pugilism; who, I trust, still retains the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good-humour and athletic as well as mental accomplishments, Page 582, col. 1. "The milliners who furnish drapery Misses.""] "Drapery Misses." This term is probably anything now but a mystery. It was, however, almost so to me when I first returned from the East in 1811-1812. It means a pretty, a high-born, a fashionable young female, well instructed by her friends, and furnished by her milliner with a wardrobe upon credit, to be repaid, when married, by the husband. The riddle was first read to me by a young and pretty heiress, on my praising the "drapery" of the "untochered" but "pretty virginities" (like Mrs. Anne Page) of the then day, which has now been some years yesterday; she assured me that the thing was common in London; and as her own thousands, and blooming looks, and rich simplicity of array, put any suspicion in her own case out of the question, I confess I gave some credit to the allegation. If necessary, authorities might be cited; in which case I could quote both "drapery" and the wearers. Let us hope, however, that it is now obsolete. Page 584, col. 1. "And Mitford in the nineteeth century."] See Mitford's Greece. "Græcia Veraz." His great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abusing Plutarch, spelling oddly, and writing quaintly; and what is strange, after all his is the best modern history of Greece in any language, and he is perhaps the best of all modern historians whatsoever. Having named his sins, it is but fair to state his virtues-learning, labour, research, wrath, and partiality. I call the latter virtues in a writer, because they make him write in earnest. 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. Page 595, col. 1. "Also there bin another pious reason."] My lady sweet, arise."-SHAKSPEARE. "They and their bills, Arcadians both,' are left."] "Arcades ambo." Page 598, col. 1. "Or wilder group of savage Salvatore's."] Rosa. Page 598, col. 1. Salvator "His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite Danish." If I err not, your Dane" is one of Iago's catalogue of nations "exquisite in their drinking." Page 598, col. 2. "Even Nimrod's In Assyria. self might leave the plains of Dura."] Page 599, col. 1. "And shine the very Siria of the spheres."] Siria, i.e., bitch-star. Page 600, col. 1. "That Scriptures out of church are blasphemies."] "Mrs. Adams answered Mr. Adams, that it was blasphem ous to talk of Scripture out of church." This dogma was broached to her husband-the best Christian in any book.-Sec Joseph Andrews. Page 600, col. 2. "Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it."] It would have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (amongst the novelists) to show their sympathy for innocent sports and old songs, teaches how to sew up frogs, and break their legs by way of experiment, in addition to the art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest, and the stupidest of pretended sports. They may talk about the beauties of nature, but the angler merely thinks of his dish of fish; he has no leisure to take his eyes from off the streams, and a single bite is worth to him more than all the scenery around. Besides, some fish bite best on a rainy day. The whale, the shark, and the tunny fishery have somewhat of noble and perilous in them; even net fishangling!-No angler can be a good man. ing, trawling, &c., are more humane and useful. But One of the best men I ever knew, -as humane, delicate-minded, generous, and excellent a creature as any in the world,-was an angler: true, he angled with painted flies, and would have been incapable of the extravagances of I. Walton." The above addition was made by a friend in reading over the MS. :-"Audi alteram partem."-I leave it to counterbalance my own observation. Page 603, col. 2. "And never craned, and made but few 'faux pas.'"] Craning." To crane" is, or was, an expression used to denote a gentleman's stretching out his neck over a hedge, "to look before he leaped:"-a pause in his "vaulting ambition," which in the field doth occasion some delay and execration in those who may be immedi ately behind the equestrian sceptic. "Sir, if you don't choose to take the leap, let me!"-was a phrase which generally sent the aspirant on again; and to good purpose: for though "the horse and rider" might fall, they made a gap through which, and over him and his steed, the field might follow. Page 603, col. 2. "Ask'd next day, If men ever hunted twice?""] Sco his Letters to his Son. Page 604, col. 2. "Go to the coffee-house, and take another."] In Swift's or Horace Walpole's letters I think it is mentioned that somebody, regretting the loss of a friend, was answered by an universal Pylades: "When I lose one, I go to the Saint James's Coffee-house, and take another." I recol. lect having heard an anecdote of the same kind. Sir W. D. was a great gamester. Coming in one day to the club of which he was a member, he was observed to look melancholy. "What is the matter, Sir William?" cried Hare, of facetious memory, "Ah!" replied Sir W., "I have just lost poor Lady D."-" Lost! What at? Quinze "Great Socrates? And thou, Diviner still."] As it is necessary in these times to avoid ambiguity, I say that 1 mean, by "Diviner still," CHRIST. If ever God was man -or man God-he was both. I never arraigned his creed, but the use, or abuse-made of it. Mr. Canning one day quoted Christianity to sanction negro slavery, and Mr. Wilberforce had little to say in reply. And was Christ crucified that black men might be scourged? If so, he had better been born a Mulatto, to give both colours an equal chance of freedom, or at least salvation. Page 611, col. 1. "When Rapp the Harmonist embargo'd marriage."] This extraordinary and flourishing German colony in America does not entirely exclude matrimony, as the "Shakers" do; but lays such restrictions upon it as prevents more than a certain quantum of births within a certain number of years; which births (as Mr. Hulme observes) generally arrive "in a little flock like those of a fariner's lambs, all within the same month perhaps." These Harmonists (so called from the name of their Bettlement) are represented as a remarkably flourishing, pious, and quiet people. See the various recent writers on America. Page 611, col. 1. "Nor canvass what so eminent a hand' meant."] Jac Tonson, according to Mr. Pope, was accustomed to call his writers "able pens," "persons of honour," and especially "eminent hands." Vide Correspondence, &c. "(There's fame)-young partridge fillets, decked with truffles."] A dish à la Lucullus." This hero, who conquered the East, has left his more extended celebrity to the transplantation of cherries (which he first brought into Europe), and the nomenclature of some very good dishes:-and I am not sure that (barring indigestion) he has not done more service to mankind by his cookery than by his conquests. A cherry-tree may weigh against a bloody laurel besides, he has contrived to earn celcbrity from both. Page 613, col. 1. Page 616, col. 1. "If from a shell-fish or from cochineal."] The composition of the old Tyrian purple, whether from a stell fish, or from cochineal, or from kermes, is still an arti cle of dispute: and even its colour-some say purple, others scarlet: I say nothing. Page 619, col. 1. "Was much consoled by his own repartee."] I think that it was a carpet on which Diogenes trod, with"Thus I trample on the pride of Plato!"-"With greater pride," as the other replied. But as carpets are meant to be trodden upon, my memory probably mis gives me, and it might be a robe, or tapestry, or a tablecloth, or some other expensive and uncynical piece of furniture. Page 619, col. 1. "To soothe our ears lest Italy should fail."] I remember that the mayoress of a provincial town, somewhat surfeited with a similar display from foreign parts, did rather indecorously break through the applauses of an intelligent audience-intelligent, I mean, as to music -for the words, besides being in recondite languages (it was some years before the peace, ere all the world lad travelled, and while I was a collegian), were sorely disguised by the performers:-this mayoress, I say, broke out with," Rot your Italianos! for my part, I loves a simple ballat!" Rossini will go a good way to bring most people to the same opinion, some day. Who would imagine that he was to be the successor of Mozart? Ilowever, I state this with diffidence, as a liege and loyal admirer of Italian music in general, and of much of Rossini's; but we may say, as the connoisseur did of painting, in "The Vicar of Wakefield," "that the picture would be better painted if the painter had taken more pains." Page 620, col. 1. "For Gothic daring shown in English money."] "Ausu Romano ære Veneto" is the inscription (and well inscribed in this instance) on the sea walls between the Adristic and Venice. The walls were a republican work of the Venetians; the inscription, I believe, imperial; and inscribed by Napoleon the First. It is time to continue to him that title-there will be a second by and by, "Spes altera mundi," if he live; let him not defeat it like his father. But, in any case, he will be preferable to Imbeciles. There is a glorious field for him, if he know how to cultivate it.-Napoleon, Duke of Reichstadt, died at Vienna, July 22, 1832-to the disappoint ment of many prophets. He had just completed his twenty-first year.] Page 620, col. 1. "Untying squires 'to fight against the churches.'"] "I conjure you, by that which you profess (Howe'er you come to know it), answer me: Though ye untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches."-Macbeth. Page 621, col. 1. "And champion him to the utmost- he would keep it."] "Rather than so, come, fate, into the list, "They err-'tis merely what is call'd mobility."] In French mobilité." I am not sure that mobility is English; but it is expressive of a quality which rather belongs to other climates, though it is sometimes seen to a great extent in our own. It may be defined as an excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions-at the same time without losing the past; and is, though some times apparently useful to the possessor, a most painful and unhappy attribute. Page €23, col. 1. "Draperied her form with curious felicity!"] "Curiosa felicitas."-PETRONIUS ARBITER Page 624, col. 1. "A noise like to wet fingers drawn on glass."] See the account of the ghost of the uncle of Prince Charles of Saxony, raised by Schroepfer-" Karl-Karl-was willst du mit mir?" Page 624, col. 2. "Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity."] "Shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, INDEX. The titles of the principal pieces are printed in SMALL CAPITALS, and the first line of every A spirit pass'd before me, 67. A year ago, you swore, fond she! 72. Abencerrage, 134. Granada's flower,' 80. Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, fourth Earl of; 100. Aberdeen, the auld toun' of, 668. Abernethy, John, the eminent surgeon, 576. Absent friend. See Friend. Abydos. See Bride of Abydos. Acheron, 153. Acherusia's lake,' 152; its present name, 640. Achilles, him who felt the Dardan's arrow,' 201. Alex- ander's race round his tomb, 652-3. The unshorn Acroceraunian mountains, 175. Acropolis, the, Minerva's Temple, 148, 638. Actium, 152, 640. Lost for Cleopatra's eyes,' 542. Adams, John, the drunken carrier, epitaph on. 41. 635. ADIRU, The; written under the impression that the Adieu, adieu, my native shore, 141. ADRIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL, 4. His reason for Adriatic, the spouseless,' and the annual marriage,' Adversity, 521; first path to truth,' 590. Advice, good, 494; good rarely comes from,' 605; 'small Egle, beauty and poet, has two little crimes. 53. Eschylus, translation from the Prometheus Vinctus' of, Afric is all the sun's,' 525. Agamemnon, Brave men lived before,' 481. Age of Gold, 546. Agrarian Laws, simile drawn from the, 575. Tiberius Gracchus's demand for their execution, 668. Ah, gentle, fleeting, wav'ring sprite, 4. Ah, heedless girl, why thus disclose, 39. Ah! Love was never yet without, 56. Ah 1-what should follow slips from my reflection, GOS. Albania, 152, 639. Albanians, 153, 154, 639. Characteristics of the, 640; sam- Albano's scarce divided waves, 183. Albion, lot of Venice shameful to, 170: lost Albion,' 112; Alcibiades, fairest and bravest of Athenians,' 459. His Alexander the Great and his 'madman's wish,' 131. His The Alexander I. of Russia, the coxcomb Czar,' 134. mate,' 549. Bald-coot bully,' 607. Alfieri, Vittorio, quotation from, 168. His last resting- Alhama, ballad on the conquest of, 40. Ali Pacha of Yanina, Albania's chief,' 152, 153, 640. Alla Hu!' explanation of, 191, 651. Almogava. See Boscan. Alpinula. See Julia Alpinula. Alps, description of the, 163. Al Sirat, 'the Bridge of Breath,' 189, 650. 'Ambition's honour'd fools,' 144; steel'd thee' [Napo- his crown to follow woman,' 47. Ambition in his 'Ambracia's Gulf, where once was lost a world for wo- Amitié: l'amour sans ailes,' 32. Amulets universally believed in by the Orientals, 202. And thou art dead, as young and fair, 52. 'Anent,' 583; its meaning, 669. Angelo, Michael, last resting-place of, 173. His statue 654. Angiolini's 'breast of snow,' 97. Anstey's Bath Guide,' error of poet Campbell relative Anteros and Eros, story of the raising of, 297, 659. Antinous, character of the death of, 638. Antony, Mark, who lost the world for love,' 459. Slave Apennines, the infant Alps,' 175. Apollo Belvidere, the, Lord of the unerring bow,' 182. Apparitions, belief in, 616. Appetite, prophetic eye' of, 533. Applause, popular, the glorious meed of,' 518. Arcadius. See Eutropius. Archidamus and the grave of valour, 659. Archimedes and his point d'appui, 607. Ardennes, forest of, 159. Its historical associations, 646. Argo, the merchant-ship,' 606. Argus, Ulysses' dog, modern contrast to, 514. Argyle Rooms, goings on at the, 97, 630. Argyro Castro, fate of the Pacha of, 653. Ariosto's bust struck by lightning, 172. Portraitures of 'Beauty blighted in an hour,' 189. him and Tasso, 282. Aristippus, 511. Aristotle, his rules, 489. Vade mecum of the truc 610 A punster, 632. Arithmetic, the poets of, 623. 'Armageddon,' plan and ultimate fate of Townsend's Arms and the man, 183. Attic flowers Aonian odours breathe,' 99. Attila, expression of, before a battle, 628. Augustine, Saint, and his confessions, 484. His dictum 665. Auld Lang Syne,' 574. Aurora Borealis, a new, 124. A versified Aurora Bore- Authors: fellows in foolscap uniforms,' 477. Avarice, a good old gentlemanly vice,' 496. Ave Maria! blessed be the hour,' 520. Away, away, ye notes of woe! 51. Away, away, your flattering arts, 4. Away with your fictions of flimsy romance, 7. B Babel and Babylon, 534, 561, 666 Beauty's heavenly ray,' 198, 652. Becher (Rev. J. T.): Answer to a complaint of his, 24. Beckford, William, author of Vatliek,' Cintra, retreat of, Bed of Ware, 543. Beecher. See Becher. Beef and Battles, 508. English Bee", 622. Behmen, Jacob, and his reveries, 542. Belisarius, hero, conqueror, and cuckold,' 511. Belshazzar! from the Banquet turn, 62. Vision of, 66. Bender, like Swedish Charles at,' 564. Benzon, Vittor, and his mother 'the celebrated beauty,' 663. BEPPO, a Venetian Story, 472. Specimen of the model, 479. Berkeley, Bishop, and his no matter' theory,' 580. 306. Betty, Master, the young Roscius,' 96. Bigotry: Who doom to hell, themselves are on the way,' Bile, energetic, 'nought 's more sublime than,' 539. Biren and Biron, the graceless name of Biron,' 577. Black Edward's helm,' 579. Black Friar, Legend of the, 618. Bland, Rev. R., and his associate Bard,' 99, 631. Blank verse allied to Tragedy, 103; preferred by 'prose Byron's Blasphemy and blasphemers, 542. Fielding's Mrs. Adams Bacchus, they say he was a god,' 342. A helpmate to Bacon, Francis, Lord, saying of his, 601. Instances of Bacon, Friar, and his brazen head, 496. Ilis 'humane Bailli (Maire of Paris), reply of, to a taunt, when going 'Blue devils for his morning mirrors,' 608. Blues, our, contrasted with the Turkish ladies, 653. Boatswain,' Byron's dog, inscriptions on the monument Bob Southey! You're a poet-Poet Laureate, 479. Boeotia and Baotian Shades, 146, 637. Dull Ecotia,' 112. Boileau's 'rash envy,' 172. Bolero, like a personified,' 603. Boleyn, Anne, remark of, on the scaffold, 654. Bolingbroke, Lord, traduces Pope by proxy, 95, 629. Bonaparte. See Napoleon. Bonnivard, François de, biographie sketch of, 251. Boon, General, Backwoodsman of Kentucky,' 561. *Lived Bores and Bored, 'two mighty tribes,' 599. Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred, 71. Bourbon, Constable of France, Song of the soldiers of 464. Bouts rimés, 619. Bowles, Rev. W. Lisle, song written to 'shock' him, Brass. See Corinthian Brass. Brazier's Company, On the intended address of the, 87. Bullfight, description of a, 146. Inveterate rage for the Burgage tenures and tithes, discord's torches,' 620. Burke, Edmund, and his lament for chivalry, 139. Say- Burns, Robert, 98. Whom Dr Currie well describes,' 520. Busby, Thomas, Mus. Doct. (Dr. Plagiary '), 114. Oh Butler, Dr., head master at Ilarrow (Pomposus') : Byron, Augusta (the poet's sister). See Leigh." Byron, John, Commodore, afterwards Admiral (grand- Byron, Lady (the poet's widow, née Milbank): Lines on Byron, Lord: His ancestry, their exploits, &c., 3, 4, 23, Byron, Mrs. (the poet's mother): 'Childe Harold had a Byron Oak, The, 40 By the rivers of Babylon,' 67. Calderon, 481. Caledonian Meeting, address intended for the, 61. Caligula, modern parallel to an act of, 656. The ty- Calm on the waters: 'It was the night,' 225. Calvin saw Servetus blaze,' 105. Calypso's Isles,' 151. Geographic note thereon, 639. Cambridge University: Granta's sluggish shade,' 20. Hoary Granta,' 99. Dark asylum of a Vandal race,' Camilla, simile drawn from the swiftness of, 603. 'Caravaggio's gloomier stain,' 598. Care brings every week his bills in,' 576. Carlisle, Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of: Dedication of Carnage is God's daughter,' 558. Origin of the phrase, Caroline, verses to, 6, 7. Caroline, Quecn, On the Braziers' proposed address to, 585. Castelnau's Histoire de la Nouvelle Russie, Byron's ob- 'Castle Spectre,' Monk Lewis's characteristic reason for The m- Castlereagh, Viscount (Robert Stewart, Marquess of Castri, site of the village of, 637. Its Castalian springs, 641. Cathay. See Ceylon. Catherine of Russia, 135. Instance of her dexterity, 135. Whom glory still adores,' 549. The Christian Em- the demons, 550. Catiline chased by all Cattle breeding, ancient promoter of, 508. Catullus, translations from, 4, 5. Imitation from, 5. 'Cavalier servente,' 473, 476. A 'supernumerary slave,' 571. Cecilia Metella, tomb of, 649. Ceres, Venus's coadjutor, 509, 622. She fell with Buona- Cervantes and his too true tale,' 593. Ceylon, Ind, or far Cathay.' 587. 'Change grows too changeable,' 586. Charles the First, fate of a tragedy named after, 633. Charles V. the Spaniard,' 60. Charles XII. of Sweden, his obstinacy at Bender, 564. |