Footnotes
[455:1] See Burns, page [452].
None knew thee but to love thee.—Halleck: On the Death of Drake.
[455:2] See Bacon, page [165].
[455:3] See Gibbon, page [430].
Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset (He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone).—Cicero: De Officiis, liber iii. c. 1.
[455:4] This is literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16. See Matthew Henry, page [283].
[456:1] See Waller, page [221].
JOHN FERRIAR. 1764-1815.
The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.
Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 6.
Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.
Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 65.
Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed
Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).
Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 121.
How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold
The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!
Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 137.
ANN RADCLIFFE. 1764-1823.
Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,
And as the portal opens to receive me,
A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts
Tells of a nameless deed.[456:2]