FOOTNOTES:
[ [1] See the Tempest volume in First Folio Shakespeare. (Crowell & Co.)
[ [2] Estes and Lauriat, Boston, Mass.
[ [3] Religious Progress of the Century.
[ [4] See Withrow.
Transcriber Notes
Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are highlighted and listed below.
Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation are preserved.
Author's punctuation style is preserved, except where noted.
Transcriber Changes
The following changes were made to the original text:
[Page 10]: Removed extra quote after Keats (What porridge had John Keats?)
[Page 21]: Was 'blurrs' (Stray-leaves, fragments, blurs and blottings)
[Page 49]: Paragraph continued, no quote needed (Tibullus gives Virgil equal credit for having in his writings touched with telling truth)
[Page 53]: Was 'Shakesspeare' (Jonson wrote for the First Folio edition of Shakespeare printed in 1623)
[Page 53]: Was 'B. I.' (B. J.)
[Page 53]: Added single quotes (Shakespeare's talk in "At the 'Mermaid'" grows out of the supposition)
[Page 69]: Was 'Shakepeare's' (He thinks the opening Sonnets are to the Earl of Southampton, known to be Shakespeare's patron)
[Page 81]: Added comma after Strafford (not Pym, the leader of the people, but Strafford, the supporter of the King.)
[Page 85]: Added end quote (some half-dozen years of immunity to the 'fretted tenement' of Strafford's 'fiery soul')
[Page 91]: Capitalized King (The King, upon his visit to Scotland, had been shocked)
[Page 100]: Was 'Finnees' (Hampden, Hollis, the younger Vane, Rudyard, Fiennes and many of the Presbyterian Party)
[Page 136]: Removed extra start quote ("Be my friend Of friends!"—My King! I would have....)
[Page 137]: Was 'brillance' (The else imperial brilliance of your mind)
[Page 137]: Was 'you way' (If Pym is busy,—you may write of Pym.)
[Page 140]: Capitalized King (the King, therefore, summoned it to meet on the third of November.)
[Page 142]: Matching the original: leaving it hyphenated (the greatest in England would have stood dis-covered.')
[Page 172]: Was 'Partiot' (The Patriot Pym, or the Apostate Strafford!)
[Page 174]: Was 'perfers' (The King prefers to leave the door ajar)
[Page 178]: Was 'her's' (I am hers now, and I will die.)
[Page 193]: Was 'Bethrothal' (Till death us do join past parting—that sounds like Betrothal indeed!)
[Page 200]: Was 'canonade' (Such a castle seldom crumbles by sheer stress of cannonade: 'Tis when foes are foiled and fighting's finished that vile rains invade)
[Page 203]: Inserted stanza (Down I sat to cards, one evening)
[Page 203]: Added starting quote ("When he found his voice, he stammered 'That expression once again!')
[Page 204]: Added starting quote ('End it! no time like the present!)
[Page 224]: Changed comma to period (the morning's lessons conned with the tutor. There, too, it was that he impressed on the lad those maxims)
[Page 236]: Added end quote (Why, he makes sure of her—"do you say, yes"— "She'll not say, no,"—what comes it to beside?)
[Page 265]: Added stanza ("'I've been about those laces we need for ... never mind!)
[Page 266]: Keeping original spelling (With dreriment about, within may life be found)
[Page 267]: Added stanza ("'Wicked dear Husband, first despair and then rejoice!)
[Page 276]: Was 'checks' (The dryness of "Aristotle's cheeks" is as usual so enlivened by Browning that the fate of Halbert and Hob grows)
[Page 289]: Added starting quote ("You wrong your poor disciple.)
[Page 290]: Removed end quote (Wish I could take you; but fame travels fast)
[Page 291]: Was 'aud' (Aunt and niece, you and me.)
[Page 294]: Was 'oustide' (Such outside! Now,—confound me for a prig!)
[Page 299]: Changed singe quote to double ("Not you! But I see.)
[Page 315]: Was 'Descretion' (To live and die together—for a month, Discretion can award no more!)
[Page 329]: Removed starting quote ("He may believe; and yet, and yet How can he?" All eyes turn with interest.)
[Page 344]: Left in ending quote with unknown start (High Church, and the Evangelicals, or Low Church.")
[Page 370]: Changed period to comma (Judgment drops her damning plummet, Pronouncing such a fatal space)
[Page 421]: Removed starting quote (About the year 1676, the corporation of Newcastle contributed)
[Page 429]: Added period (whose little book and large tune had led him the long way from to-day.")
[Page 437]: Was 'irreverant' (gives that up as an irreverent innovation.)
[Page 440]: Added beginning quote ("When we attained them!)
[Page 445]: Added comma (we have as Browning says in a poem already quoted, "Bernard de Mandeville,")