Footnotes
[185:2] See Fletcher, page [184].
There 's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Hood: Ode to Melancholy.
[185:3] Dr. Johnson said Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. And Byron said, "If the reader has patience to go through his volumes, he will be more improved for literary conversation than by the perusal of any twenty other works with which I am acquainted."—Works, vol. i. p. 144.
[185:4] A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.—Garrick: Prologue on quitting the stage.
Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (Being not unacquainted with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate).—Virgil: Æneid, lib. i. 630.
[185:5] See Shakespeare, page [84].
[185:6] Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius (There is nothing said which has not been said before).—Terence: Eunuchus. Prol. 10.
[185:7] A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.—Herbert: Jacula Prudentum.
A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.—Coleridge: The Friend, sect. i. essay viii.
Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident (Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves).—Didacus Stella in Lucan, 10, tom. ii.
[186:1] Le style est l'homme même (The style is the man himself).—Buffon: Discours de Réception (Recueil de l'Académie, 1750).
[186:2] Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond, book ii. chap. xii.
[186:3] Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.—Plutarch: Whether 't was rightfully said, Live concealed.
Like rowers, who advance backward.—Montaigne: Of Profit and Honour, book iii. chap. i.
[186:4] See Shakespeare, page [132].
[186:5] See Heywood, page [15].
[186:6] See Heywood, page [14]. Rabelais: book i. chap. xi.
[186:7] Æsop: Fables, book v. fable v.
He left a corsair's name to other times,
Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
Byron: The Corsair, canto iii. stanza 24.
[187:1] See Fletcher, page [183].
[187:2] "Castles in the air,"—Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney, Massinger, Sir Thomas Browne, Giles Fletcher, George Herbert, Dean Swift, Broome, Fielding, Cibber, Churchill, Shenstone, and Lloyd.
[187:3] Oats,—a grain which is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.—Samuel Johnson: Dictionary of the English Language.
[187:4] Carpet knights are men who are by the prince's grace and favour made knights at home. . . . They are called carpet knights because they receive their honours in the court and upon carpets.—Markham: Booke of Honour (1625).
"Carpet knights,"—Du Bartas (ed. 1621), p. 311.
[187:5] The exception proves the rule.
[188:1] See Shakespeare, page [50].
Qui vino indulget, quemque alea decoquit, ille
In venerem putret
(He who is given to drink, and he whom the dice are despoiling, is the one who rots away in sexual vice).—Persius: Satires, satire v.
His favourite sin
Is pride that apes humility.
Southey: The Devil's Walk.
[189:1] When Abraham Lincoln heard of the death of a private, he said he was sorry it was not a general: "I could make more of them."
[189:2] Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'épée (So far had the pen under the king the superiority over the sword).—Saint Simon: Mémoires, vol. iii. p. 517 (1702), ed. 1856.
The pen is mightier than the sword.—Bulwer Lytton: Richelieu, act ii. sc. 2.
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead,
Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Anonymous.
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim,
Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
Thomas Seward: On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead;
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
Thomas Heywood: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.
[189:4] A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.—Johnson: Piazzi, 52.
[190:1] Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll outride the Devil.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (German).
[190:2] See Wotton, page [174].
[190:3] There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs.
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose; and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.—Greene: Perimedes the Blacksmith (1588).
[191:1] See Heywood, page [11].
[191:2] See Heywood, page [20].
Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
Carew: Think not 'cause men flattering say.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.—Howell: Letters, book ii. iv. (1621).
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
Dryden: Persius, satire v. line 246.
Beauty draws us with a single hair.—Pope: The Rape of the Lock, canto ii. line 27.
And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
Has led and turned me by a single hair.
Bland: Anthology, p. 20 (edition 1813).
[192:1] See Heywood, page [10].
[192:2] See Heywood, page [18].
[192:3] See Shakespeare, page [44].
[192:4] See Chaucer, page [3].
[192:5] For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.—Martin Luther: Table Talk, lxvii.
God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
Drummond: Posthumous Poems.
No sooner is a temple build to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.—Herbert: Jacula Prudentum.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there.
Defoe: The True-born Englishman, part i. line 1.
[193:1] Ignorance is the mother of devotion.—Jeremy Taylor: To a Person newly Converted (1657).
Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.—Dryden: The Maiden Queen, act i. sc. 2.
The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip
To haud the wretch in order.
Burns: Epistle to a Young Friend.
[193:3] Saint Augustine was in the habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sunday; but being puzzled with the different practices then prevailing (for they had begun to fast at Rome on Saturday), consulted Saint Ambrose on the subject. Now at Milan they did not fast on Saturday, and the answer of the Milan saint was this: "Quando hic sum, non jejuno Sabbato; quando Romæ sum, jejuno Sabbato" (When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday).—Epistle xxxvi. to Casulanus.
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. 1581-1613.
In part to blame is she,
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.[193:4]
A Wife. St. 36.