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).

[599:2]

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.

[601:2] See Pope, page [316].

[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.)