FOOTNOTES:
[1]i.e., Gambled at Faro.
[2]See the writer’s Life of David Gray.
[3]I have given a detailed account of Peacock in my “Look Round Literature.”
[4]O those “Tendencies of one’s Time”! O those dismal Phantoms, conjured up by the blatant Book-taster and the Indolent Reviewer! How many a poor Soul, that would fain have been honest, have they bewildered into the Slough of Despond and the Bog of Beautiful Ideas!—R.B.