when a boy, with fruit, milk, and new cheese; and in revisiting which he promised himself great pleasure.-Mém. de SULLY. Page 15, line 5. When DIOCLETIAN's self-corrected mind Diocletian retired into his native province, and there amused himself with building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. "If," said he, "I could shew him the cabbages which I have planted with my own hands at Salona, he would no longer solicit me to return to a throne." Page 15, line 9. Say, when contentious CHARLES, &c. When the Emperor Charles the Fifth had executed his memorable resolution, and had set out for the monastery of Justé, he stopped a few days at Ghent to indulge that tender and pleasant melancholy, which arises in the mind of every man in the decline of life, on visiting the place of his birth, and the objects familiar to him in his early youth. Page 15, line 10. To muse with monks, &c. Monjes solitarios del glorioso padre San Geronimo, says Sandova. In a corner of the Convent-garden there is this inscription. En esta santa casa de S. Geronimo de Justé so retiró à acabar su vida Cárlos V. Emperador, &c.-PONZ. Page 16, line 3. Then did his horse the homeward track descry, The memory of the horse forms the ground-work of a pleasing little romance entitled, "Lai du Palefroi vair."-See Fabliaux du XII. Siecle. Ariosto likewise introduces it in a passage full of truth and nature. When Bayardo meets Angelica in the forest, Va mansueto a la Donzella, . Ch'in Albracca il servìa già di sua mano. ORLANDO FURIOSO, i. 75. Page 17, line 1. Sweet bird! thy truth shall Harlem's walls attest, During the siege of Harlem, when that city was reduced to the last extremity, and on the point of opening its gates to a base and barbarous enemy, a design was formed to relieve it; and the intelligence was conveyed to the citizens by a letter which was tied under the wing of a pigeon.-THUANUS, lv. 5. The same messenger was employed at the siege of Mutina, as we are informed by the elder Pliny.-Hist. Nat. x. 37. Page 17, line 10. Hark! the bee, &c. This little animal, from the extreme convexity of her eye, cannot see many inches before her. NOTES ON THE SECOND PART. Page 21, line 11. They in their glorious course TRUE Glory, says one of the Ancients, is to be acquired by doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read; and by making the world the happier and the better for our having lived in it. Page 21, line 15. These still exist, &c. There is a future Existence even in this world, an Existence in the hearts and minds of those who shall live after us.1 It is a state of rewards and punishments; and, like that revealed to us in the Gospel, has the happiest influence on our lives. The latter excites us to gain the favour of GOD, the former to gain the love and esteem of wise and good men; and both lead to the same end; for, in framing our conceptions of the DEITY, we only ascribe to Him exalted degrees of Wisdom and Goodness. Page 23, line 21. Ah, why should Virtue fear the frowns of Fate? The highest reward of Virtue is Virtue herself, as the severest punishment of Vice is Vice herself. Page 24, line 31. Yet still how sweet the soothings of his art! The astronomer chalking his figures on the wall, in Hogarth's view of Bedlam, is an admirable exemplification of this idea.-See the RAKE'S PROGRESS, plate 8. Page 25, line 19. Turns but to start, and gazes but to sigh! The following stanzas 2 are said to have been written on a blank leaf of this Poen. They present so affecting a reverse of the picture, that I cannot resist the opportunity of introducing them here. Pleasures of Memory!-oh! supremely blest, And justly proud beyond a Poet's praise; The herald still of misery, 1 De tous les biens humains c'est le seul que la mort ne nous peut ravir. -BOSSUET. 2 By Henry F. R. Soame, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Memory makes her influence known I greet her as the fiend, to whom belong The vulture's ravening beak, the raven's funeral song. She tells of time misspent, of comfort lost, Of hopes too fondly nursed, too rudely crossed, Lest she beyond the grave resume her reign, Page 26, line 25. Hast thou thro' Eden's wild-wood vales pursued On the road-side between Penrith and Appleby there stands a small pillar with this inscription: "This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann, Countess Dowager of Pembroke, &c., for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother, Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d of April, 1616; in memory whereof she hath left an annuity of 41. to be distributed to the poor of the parish of Brougham, every 2d day of April for ever, upon the stone-table placed hard by. Laus Deo!" The Eden is the principal river of Cumberland, and rises in the wildest part of Westmoreland. Page 27, line 4. O'er his dead son the gallant ORMOND sighed. "I would not exchange my dead son," said he, "for any living son in Christendom."-HUME. The same sentiment is inscribed on an urn at the Leasowes. "Heu, quanto minus est cum reliquis versari, quam tui meminisse !" Page 31, line 17. Down by St. Herbert's consecrated grove; A small island covered with trees, among which were formerly the ruins of a religious house. Page 32, line 3. When lo! a sudden blast the vessel blew, In a mountain-lake the agitations are often violent and momentary. The winds blow in gusts and eddies; and the water no sooner swells, than it subsides.-See BOURN's Hist. of Westmoreland. Page 33, line 5. To what pure beings, in a nobler sphere, The several degrees of angels may probably have larger views, and some of them be endowed with capacities able to retain together, and constantly set before them, as in one picture, all their past knowledge at once.-LOCKE. |