Footnotes
[598:1] See Byron, page [544].
[599:1] I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.—Rumbold (when on the scaffold).
No war or battle sound
Was heard the world around.
Milton: Hymn of Christ's Nativity, line 31.
[601:1] Everything comes if a man will only wait.—Disraeli: Tancred, book iv. chap. viii.
[602:1] See Davies, page [176].
[604:1] There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.—Bayle: vol. ii. p. 779.
Though old the thought and oft exprest,
'T is his at last who says it best.
Lowell: For an Autograph.
[604:2] See Johnson, page [370].
RICHARD HENGEST HORNE. 1803- ——.
'T is always morning somewhere in the world.[604:3]
Orion. Book iii. Canto ii. (1843.)