CHAPTER XIII
April 5, 1825. Numbered XIV
Note. Madame Pasta. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, pp. 324, et seq.
[176]. In summer shade [yield him], in winter fire. Pope, Ode on Solitude.
Maritorneses. From the name of the servant wench in Don Quixote, who had hair like a horse’s tail.
[177]. A thing of life. Byron’s Corsair, Canto I. 3.
Fit for speed succinct. Paradise Lost, III. 643.
Mark how a plain tale shall put them down. 1 King Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4.
[178]. Dr. S. Dr. Stoddart. See ante, note to p. [142].
Famous poet’s pen. Cf. Spenser’s Verses to the Earl of Essex.
[182]. M. Martine’s Death of Socrates. Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine’s (1791–1869) work was published in 1823.
A nation of shopkeepers. See vol. I. The Round Table, note to p. [150].
M. de la Place. Pierre Antoine de la Place (1707–1793) translated Tom Jones. The third edition of 1751 is in the British Museum.
[183]. L. H. Leigh Hunt.