The Unknown Eros

by Coventry Patmore

NOTES.

[{29}] In this year the middle and upper classes were disfranchised by Mr. Disraeli’s Government, and the final
destruction of the liberties of England by the Act of 1884 rendered inevitable.

[{35}] The Alabama Treaty.

[{62}] This Piece was written in the year 1874, soon after the publication of an incendiary pamphlet by Mr. Gladstone against the English Catholics, occasioned by the Vatican Council.