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Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below. [p. 144. St. 14. ¿Quæ septem dici sex tamen esse solent." OVID. His name Giuseppe, call'd more briefly, Beppo. [p. 145. St. 85. Beppo is the Joe of the Italian Joseph. The Spaniards call the person a "Cortejo." [p. 146. St. 37. "Cortejo" is pronounced "Corteho," with an

aspirate, according to the Arabesque guttural. It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever.

Raphael, who died in thy embrace, and vies. [p. 147. St. 46. For the received accounts of the cause of Raphael's death, see his Lives.

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NOTES TO DON JUAN.

NOTES TO CANTO I. Brave men were living before Agamemnon. [p. 153. St. 5. "Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona." HORACE. Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar! [p. 154. St. 17. "Description des vertus incomparables de l'huile le Macassar."-See the advertisement.

They only add them all in an appendix. [p. 156. St. 44. Fact. There is, or was, such an edition, with all the obnoxious epigrams of Martial placed by themselves at the end.

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For none likes more to hear himself converse.
[p. 197. St. 45.
Rispose allor Margatte, a dirtel tosto,
lo non credo più al nero ch' all azzurro ;
Ma nell cappone, o lesso, o vuogli arrosto,
E credo alcuna volta anco nel burro;
Nella cervogia, e quando io n'ho nell mosto,
E molto più nell' espro che il mangurro;
Ma sopra tutto nel buon vino ho fede,
E credo che sia salvo chi gli crede.

PULCI, Morgante Maggiore, 18, 151.

That e'er by precious metal was held in.

[p. 199. St. 71. This dress is Moorish, and the bracelets and bar are worn in the manner described. The reader will perceive hereafter, that, mother of Haidee was of Fez, her daughter as the wore the garb of the country.

A like gold bar, above her instep roll'd. [p. 199. St. 72. The bar of gold above the instep is a mark of sovereign rank in the women of the families of the Deys, and is worn as such by their female relatives.

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Her person if allow'd at large to run. [p. 199. St. 73. This is no exaggeration; there were four women, whom I remember to have seen, possessed their hair in this profusion; of these, three were English, the other was a Levantine. Their hair was of that length and quantity, that when let down, it almost entirely shaded the person, so as nearly to render dress a superfluity. Of these, only one had dark hair; the Oriental's had, perhaps, the lightest colour of the four.

heart.

Soft hour! which wakes the wish and melts the
[p. 204. St. 108.
Era già l'ora che volge 'I disio,
A' naviganti, e 'ntenerisce il cuore ;
Lo di ch han detto a' dolci amici a dio;
E che lo nuovo peregrin' d' amore

Punge, se ode squilla di lontano,

Che paja 1 giorno pianger che si muore.``
DANTE'S Purgatory, C. 8.

This last line is the first of Gray's Elegy, taken by him without acknowledgment.

Some hands unseen strew'd flowers upon his tomb. [p. 204. St. 109. See Suetonius for this fact.

NOTES TO CANTO IV.

A vein had burst. [p. 209. St. 59. This is no very uncommon effect of the violence of conflicting and different passions. The Doge Francis Foscari, on his deposition, in 1457, hearing the bell of St. Mark announce the elec

tion of his successor, "mourut subitement d'une hémorrhagie causée par une veine qui éclata dans sa poitrine, (see Sismondi and Daru,) at the age of eighty years, when "Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?" Before I was sixteen years of age, I was witness to a melancholy instance of the same effect of mixed passions upon a young person; who, however, did not die in consequence, at that time, but fell a victim some years afterwards to a seizure of the same kind, arising from causes intimately connected with agitation of mind.

A marble fountain echoes. [p. 220. St. 55. A common furniture.-I recollect being receiv ed by Ali Pacha, in a room containing a marble basin and fountain.

The gate so splendid was in all its features [p. 223. St. ST Features of a gate—a ministerial metapher; the feature upon which this question hinges.”— See the "Fudge Family," or hear Castlereagh

Though on more thorough-bred or fairer fora [p. 225. & There is perhaps nothing more distinctive of birth than the hand: it is almost the only sa of blood which aristocracy can generate.

But sold by the impresario at no high rate. [p. 211. St. 80. This is a fact. A few years ago a man engaged a company for some foreign theatre, embarked them at an Italian port, and, carrying them to Algiers, sold them all. One of the women, returned from her captivity, I heard sing, by Save Solyman, the glory of their line. [p. 229. St. 147 a strange coincidence, in Rossini's opera of „L'Italiana in Algeri,“ ́at Venice, in the begin-in his essay "on Empire," hints that Selymen It may not be unworthy of remark, that Barre, ning of 1817. was the last of his line; on what authority, I know not. These are his words: "The destruc tion of Mustapha was so fatal to Solyman's line. as the succession of the Turks from Solyman. until this day, is suspected to be untrue, and of strange blood; for that Solymus the Second was thought to be supposititious." But Bacon, ia his historical authorities, is often inaccurate. I could give half a dozen instances from apophthegms only.

From all the pope makes yearly 'twould perplex
To find three perfect pipes of the third sex.
[p. 212. St. 86.
It is strange that it should be the Pope and
the Sultan who are the chief encouragers of this
branch of trade-women being prohibited as
singers at St. Peter's, and not deemed trust-
worthy as guardians of the haram.

While weeds and ordure rankle round the base. Being in the humour of criticism, I shall pre[p. 214. St. 103. ceed, after having ventured upon the slips of The pillar which records the battle of Ravenna Bacon, to touch on one or two as trifting in the is about two miles from the city, on the opposite edition of the British poets, by the justly-s side of the river to the road towards Forli.brated Campbell.-But I do this in good w Gaston de Foix, who gained the battle, was killed in it; there fell on both sides twenty thousand men. The present state of the pillar and its site

is described in the text.

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Prepared for supper with a glass of rum. [p. 220. St. 53. In Turkey nothing is more common than for the Mussulmans to take several glasses of strong spirits by way of appetizer. I have seen them take as many as six of raki before dinner, and swear that they dined the better for it; I tried the experiment, but was like the Scotchman, who having heard that the birds called kittiewiaks were admirable whets, ate six of them, and complained that he was no hungrier than when he begun."

and trust it will be so taken.-If any thing ceta add to my opinion of the talents and true feel ing of that gentleman, it would be his classical. honest, and triumphant defence of Pope, agust the vulgar cant of the day, and its existing Grub-street.

The inadvertencies to which I allude are: Firstly, in speaking of Anstey, whom be atcuses of having taken "his leading characs:79 from Smollett." Anstey's Bath Guide was pub lished in 1766. Smollett's Humphry Clinker the only work of Smollett's from which Tab ha could have been taken) was written derag Smollett's last residence at Leghorn, in 1770 – "Argal," if there has been any borrowing. Ao stey must be the creditor, and not the debtor. I refer Mr. Campbell to his own data in his uves of Smollett and Anstey.

Secondly, Mr. Campbell says in the life af Cowper that "he knows not to whom Cowpet alludes in these lines:

Nor he who, for the bane of thousands born,
Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to see72.

The Calvinist meant Voltaire, and the cheren of Ferney, with its inscription, “Deo crest Voltaire.

Thirdly, in the life of Burus, Mr. C. quotes
Shakespeare thus,—

To gild refined gold, to paint the rest,
Or add fresh perfume to the violet.
This version by no means improves the org
nal, which is as follows:

To gild refined gold, to paint the lilg,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
King Jogy

A great poet quoting another should be est rect; he should also be accurate when he acest a Parnassian brother of that dangerous charge "borrowing" a poet had better borrow any thing (excepting money) than the thoughts of curtherthey are always sure to be reclaimed bat te very hard, having been the lender, to be de

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Er All sounds it pierceth, “Allah! Allah! Hu!" “Allah! Hu!" is properly the war-cry of the [p. 251. St. 8. fussulmans, and they dwell long on the last yllable, which gives it a very wild and peculiar flect.

Carnage" (80 Wordsworth tells you) is God's daughter [p. 251. St. 9. "But thy) most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is man array'd for mutual slaughter; Yea, Carnage is thy daughter!"

WORDSWORTH's Thanksgiving Ode. Vas printed Grove, although his name was Grose. [p. 252. St. 18. A fact; see the Waterloo Gazettes. I recollect emarking at the time to a friend: "There is ame! a man is killed, his name is Grose, and hey print it Grove." I was at college with the eceased, who was a very amiable and clever and his society in great request for his vit, gaiety, and "chansons à boire."

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Tis pity "that such meanings should pave_Hell." [p. 252. St. 25.

The Portuguese proverb says that "Hell is aved with good intentions."'

NOTES TO CANTO IX. Humanity would rise, and thunder "Nay! [p. 263. St. 1. Query, Ney?-PRINTER's Devil.

And send the sentinel before your gate A slice or two from your luxurious meals. "I at this time got a post, being sick for fatigue, [p. 264. St. 6. with four others. We were sent to break biscuit, and make a mess for Lord Wellington's hounds. I was very hungry, and thought it a good job at the time, as we got our while we broke the biscuit, a thing I had not own fill got for some days. When thus engaged, the Prodigal Son was never once out of my mind; and I sighed, as I fed the dogs, over my humble situation and my ruined hopes.". Journal of a Soldier of the 71st Regt. during the War in Spain. [p. 266. St. 33.

Because he could no more digest his dinner. He was killed in a conspiracy, after his temper had been exasperated, by his extreme costivity, to a degree of insanity.

And had just buried the fair-faced Lanskoi. He was the "grande passion" of the grande [p. 268. St. 47. Catherine.. See her Lives, under the head of "Lanskoy."

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Bid Ireland's Londonderry's Marquess show His parts of speech. [p. 268. St. 49. that person. This was written long before the suicide of

Your "fortune" was in a fair way "to swell A man," as Giles says. married."—Sir Giles Overreach. MASSINGER. "His Fortune swells him, it is rank, he's [p. 269. St. 63.

NOTES TO CANTO X.

Would scarcely join again the "reformadoes." Bradwardine, in Waverley, is authority for "Reformers," or rather "Reformed." The Baron [p. 273. St. 13. the word.

The endless soot bestows a tint far deeper
Than can be hid by altering his shirt.
[p. 273. St. 15.

Query suit ?-PRINTER'S DEVIL.

Balgounie's Brig's black wall. (p. 273. St. 18. The brig of Don, near the "auld toun" of Aberdeen, with its one arch and its black deep salmon stream below, is in my memory as yester

day. I still remember, though perhaps I may misquote, the awful proverb which made me pause to cross it, and yet lean over it with a the mother's side. The saying as recollected by childish delight, being an only son, at least by me was this-but I have never heard or seen it since I was nine years of age:

"Brig of Balgounie, black's your wa';

Wi' a wife's ae son and a mear's ae foal,
Doun ye shall fa'!"

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Which gave her dukes the graceless name of [p. 277. St. 58. ite, assumed the name and arms of the "Birons” In the Empress Anne's time, Biren, her favourof France, which families are yet extant with that of England. There are still the daughters member seeing in England in the blessed year of Courland. of that name; one of them I reof the Allies-the Duchess of S.-to whom the English Duchess of S-t presented me as a namesake.

Eleven thousand maidenheads of bone, The greatest number flesh hath ever known. [p. 277. St. 62. St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins much as ever. were still extant in 1816, and may be so yet as

Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t'other. (p. 279. St. 81.

India America.

NOTES TO CANTO XI.

Who on a lark, with black-eyed Sal (his blowing),
Se prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing?
[p. 282. St. 19.
The advance of science and of language has
rendered it unnecessary to translate the above
good and true English, spoken in its original
purity by the select nobility and their patrons.
The following is a stanza of a song which was
very popular, at least in my early days:—
"On the high toby-spice flash the muzzle,
In spite of each gallows old scout;
If you at the spellken can't hustle,
You'll be hobbled in making a Clout.
Then your Blowing will wax gallows haughty,
When she hears of your scaly mistake,
She'll surely turn snitch for the forty,

That her Jack may be regular weight."

If there be any gem'man so ignorant as to require a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pastor 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. St. James's Palace and St. James's "Hells." [p. 283. St. 29. "Hells," gaming-houses. What their number may now be in this life, I know not. Before I was of age I knew them pretty accurately, both "gold" and "silver." I was once nearly called out by an acquaintance, because when he asked me, where I thought that his soul would be found hereafter, I answered, "In Silver Hell."

And therefore even I won't anent This subject quote. [p. 284. St. 43. "Anent" was a Scotch phrase, meaning "concerning"-"with regard to." It has been made English by the Scotch Novels; and, as the Frenchman said-"If it be not, ought to be English."

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A hazy widower turn'd of forty's sure

(p. 292. & This line may puzzle the commentater er than the present generation.

Like Russians rushing from hot baths to am (p. 295. &a The Russians, as is well known, run out ba their hot baths to plunge into the Neva; a pa sant practical antithesis, which it seems das them no harm.

The world to gaze upon those northern lights

(p. 296. St. 2 For a description and print of this inhabitan of the polar region and native country of the Aurora borealis, see PARRY's Voyage in search of a North-West Passage.

As Philip's son proposed to do with Ather

(p. 296. St A sculptor projected to hew Mount Athos int a statue of Alexander, with a city in one band and, I believe, a river in his pocket, vil various other similar devices. But Alexander gone, and Athos remains, I trust ere long to look over a nation of freemen.

NOTES TO CANTO XIII

Also there bin another pious reason.
(p. 299. St

With every thing that pretty bin,
My Lady sweet arise.-SHAKSPEARE

His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite
Danish.
(p. 303. St. 71
If I err not, "Your Dane" is one of lacus
Catalogue of Nations "exquisite in their drinking

Even Nimrod's self might leave the plains of
(p. 304 8 8
In Assyria.

Dura.

The milliners who furnish "drapery misses." [p. 284. St. 49. "Drapery misses" This term is probably any thing 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 highborn, 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 an "untochered" but "pretty That Scriptures out of church are blasphemies. [p. 306. St.% virginities" (like Mrs. Anne Page) of the then "Mrs. Adams answered Mr. Adams, that day, which has now been some years yesterday: -she assured me that the thing was common in was blasphemous to talk of Scripture out of London; and as her own thousands, and bloom-church. This dogma was broached to her h ing looks, and rich simplicity of array, put band-the best Christian in any book. See Ja any suspicion in her own case out of the ques-seph Andrews, in the latter chapters.

tion, I confess I gave some credit to the allega-
tion. 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.

'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
[p. 285. St. 60.
"Divina particulam auræ."

The quaint, old, cruel corcomb, in his gullet
Should have a hook, and a small trout to pal
[p. 307. St 10%

It would have taught him humanity at least This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (amongst the novelists) to show their s pathy for innocent sports and old songs, teacher how to sew up frogs, and break their legs way of experiment, in addition to the art of angling, the cruellest, the coldest, and the st pidest 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 singit Gives, with Greek truth, the good old Greek bite is worth to him more than all the seevery [p. 290. St. 19. around. Besides, some fish bite best on a 13'! See MITFORD's Greece. "Græcia Ferax." His day. The whale, the shark, and the tast great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abus-fishery have somewhat of noble and perilous a

NOTES TO CANTO XII.

the lie.

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them; even net-fishing, trawling, are more hu- | tain quantum of births within a certain number mane and useful-but angling!-No angler can be a good man.

"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.

NOTES TO CANTO XIV.

of years; which births (as Mr. Hulme observes) a farmer's lambs, all within the same month pergenerally arrive "in a little flock like those of haps." These Harmonists (so called from the name of their settlement) are represented as a remarkably flourishing, pious, and quiet people. See the various recent writers on America.

Nor canvass what "so eminent a hand" meant. [p. 320. St. 88. Jacob Tonson, according to Pope, was 80 customed to call his writers "able pens"-"persons of honour," and especially "eminent hands." And never craned, and made but few (There's Fame)-young Partridge-fillets, deck'd While great Lucullus' (robe triomphale) muffles"faux pas. [p. 310. St. 33. Craning.-"To crane" with truffles. is, or was, an expres[p. 323. St. 66. ion used to denote a gentleman's stretching out quered the East, has left his more extended ceA dish "à la Lucullus." This hero, who conis neck over a hedge, "to look before he leap-lebrity to the transplantation of cherries (which d: "—a pause in his "vaulting ambition, which in the field doth occasion some delay and execration in those who may be immediately beind 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.

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Go to the coffee-house, and take another. [p. 312. St. 48. 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 recollect 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 facetions memory. "Ah! replied Sir W. "I have just lost poor Lady D. "Lost! What atQuinze or Hazard?" was the consolatory rejoinder of the querist.

And I refer you to wise Oxenstiern.

[p. 313. St. 59. The famous Chancellor Oxenstiern said to his son, on the latter expressing his surprise upon the great effects arising from petty causes in the presumed mystery of politics: "You see by this, with how little wisdom the kingdoms of the world are governed."

my son,

NOTES TO CANTO XV.

clature of some very good dishes; and I am he first brought into Europe) and the nomennot 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 celebrity from both.

But even sans "confitures," it no less true is, There's pretty picking in those "petits puits." [p. 323. St. 68. classical and well-known dish for part of the "Petits puits d'amour garnis de confitures," a

flank of a second course.

For that with me's a "sine qua." [p. 324. St. 86.
Subauditur "Non;" omitted for the sake of
euphony.

In short, upon that subject I've some qualms very
Like those of the Philosopher of Malmsbury.
[p. 325. St. 96.

that compliment to the souls of other people as
Hobbes who, doubting of his own soul, paid
to decline their visits, of which he had some
apprehension.

NOTES TO CANTO XVI.

If from a shell-fish or from cochineal. [p. 326. St. 10. The composition of the old Tyrian purple, whether from a shell-fish, or from cochineal, or from kermes, is still an article of dispute; and even its colour-some say purple, others scarlet: I say nothing.

For a spoil'd carpet-but the "Attic Bee.” And thou Diviner still, Was much consoled by his own repartee. Whose lot it is by man to be mistaken. [p. 330. St. 43. [p. 318. St. 18. I think that it was a carpet on which Diogenes As it is necessary in these times to avoid am- trod, with-"Thus I trample on the pride of biguity, I say, that I mean, by "Diviner still," Plato!"-"With greater pride," as the other CHRIST. If ever God was Man-or Man God-replied. But as carpets are meant to be trodden he was both. I never arraigned his creed, but upon, wy memory probably misgives me, and it the use or abuse-made of it. Mr. Canning might be a robe, or tapestry, or a table-cloth, one day quoted Christianity to sanction Negro- or some other expensive and uncynical piece of Slavery, and Mr. Wilberforce had little to say furniture. 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.

With "Tu mi chamas's" from Portingale,
To soothe our ears, lest Italy should fail.
[p. 330. St. 45.

I remember that the mayoress of a provincial When Rapp the Harmonist embargoed marriage town, somewhat surfeited with a similar display In his harmonious settlement. p. 320. St. 35. from foreign parts, did rather indecorously break This extraordinary and flourishing German through the applauses of an intelligent audience colony in America does not entirely exclude ma-intelligent, I mean, as to music,-for the words, trimony, as the "Shakers" do; but lays such besides being in recondite languages (it was restrictions upon it as present more than a cer- some years before the peace, ere all the world

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