Footnotes.
[{0a}] See Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and other Prose Pieces in this edition, page 223.
[{3}] Reverently some well-meaning persons have placed a marble slab on the wall of the cemetery with a medallion-profile of Keats on it and some mediocre lines of poetry. The face is ugly, and rather hatchet-shaped, with thick sensual lips, and is utterly unlike the poet himself, who was very beautiful to look upon. ‘His countenance,’ says a lady who saw him at one of Hazlitt’s lectures, ‘lives in my mind as one of singular beauty and brightness; it had the expression as if he had been looking on some glorious sight.’ And this is the idea which Severn’s picture of him gives. Even Haydon’s rough pen-and-ink sketch of him is better than this ‘marble libel,’ which I hope will soon be taken down. I think the best representation of the poet would be a coloured bust, like that of the young Rajah of Koolapoor at Florence, which is a lovely and lifelike work of art.
[{19}] It is perhaps not generally known that there is another and older peacock ceiling in the world besides the one Mr. Whistler has done at Kensington. I was surprised lately at Ravenna to come across a mosaic ceiling done in the keynote of a peacock’s tail—blue, green, purple, and gold—and with four peacocks in the four spandrils. Mr. Whistler was unaware of the existence of this ceiling at the time he did his own.
[{43}] An Unequal Match, by Tom Taylor, at Wallack’s Theatre, New York, November 6, 1882.
[{74}] ‘Make’ is of course a mere printer’s error for ‘mock,’ and was subsequently corrected by Lord Houghton. The sonnet as given in The Garden of Florence reads ‘orbs’ for ‘those.’
[{158}] September 1890. See Intentions, page 214.
[{163}] November 30, 1891.
[{164}] February 12, 1892.
[{170}] February 23, 1893.
[{172}] The verses called ‘The Shamrock’ were printed in the Sunday Sun, August 5, 1894, and the charge of plagiarism was made in the issue dated September 16, 1894.
[{188}] Cousin errs a good deal in this respect. To say, as he did, ‘Give me the latitude and the longitude of a country, its rivers and its mountains, and I will deduce the race,’ is surely a glaring exaggeration.
[{190}] The monarchical, aristocratical, and democratic elements of the Roman constitution are referred to.
[{193a}] Polybius, vi. 9. αυτη πολιτειων ανακυκλωσις, αυτη φυσεως οικνομια.
[{193b}] χωρις ορyης η φθονου ποιουμενος την αποδειξιν.
[{193c}] The various stages are συστασις, αυξησις, ακμη, μεταβολη ες τουμπαλιν.
[{197a}] Polybius, xii. 24.
[{197b}] Polybius, i. 4, viii. 4, specially; and really passim.
[{198a}] He makes one exception.
[{198b}] Polybius, viii. 4.
[{199}] Polybius, xvi. 12.
[{200a}] Polybius, viii. 4: το παραδοξοτον των καθ ημας ερyον ητυχη συνετελεσε; τουτο δ’εστι το παντα τα yνωριζομενα μερη της οικουμενης υπο μιαν αρχην και δυναστειαν αyαyειν, ο προτερον ουχ ευρισκεται yεyονος
[{200b}] Polybius resembled Gibbon in many respects. Like him he held that all religions were to the philosopher equally false, to the vulgar equally true, to the statesman equally useful.
[{203}] Cf. Polybius, xii. 25, ψιλως λεyομενον το yεyονος ψυχαyωyει μεν, ωφελει δ'ουδεν προστεθεισης δε της αιτιας εyκαρπος η της ιστοριας yιyνεται χρησις.
[{205}] Polybius, xxii. 22.
[{207}] I mean particularly as regards his sweeping denunciation of the complete moral decadence of Greek society during the Peloponnesian War which, from what remains to us of Athenian literature, we know must have been completely exaggerated. Or, rather, he is looking at men merely in their political dealings: and in politics the man who is personally honourable and refined will not scruple to do anything for his party.
[{211}] Polybius, xii. 25.
[{253}] As an instance of the inaccuracy of published reports of this lecture, it may be mentioned that all previous versions give this passage as The artist may trace the depressed revolution of Bunthorne simply to the lack of technical means!
[{317}] The Two Paths, Lect. III. p. 123 (1859 ed.).
[{328a}] Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).
[{328b}] Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).