CHAPTER XXV
November 9. Numbered XXVIII
281. In spite of Mr. Burke’s philippic. A Letter to a member of the National Assembly, 1791.
Mr. Moore’s late Rhymes on the Road. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, p. 365, et seq.
Mais vois la rapidité de cet astre. La Nouvelle Héloïse, Première Partie, Lettre XXVI.
[282]. Forbade us to interpret them such. Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 3.
Simplex munditiis. Horace, Odes I. 5.
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[283]. The pauper lad. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, pp. 366–7.
Fables for the Holy Alliance. Published 1823.
Secretary to the Venetian Ambassador. Rousseau was Secretary to the French Ambassador to Venice, M. de Montaign, from August 1743 to August 1744.
Milton’s house. See ante, note to p. [232].
Mr. Washington Irvine. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, p. 311 and note.
[284]. Mr. Hobhouse ... Westminster. John Cam Hobhouse was elected M.P. for Westminster in 1820.
[285]. Upland swells. ‘The grassy uplands’ gentle swells.’ Coleridge, Ode to the Departing Year, 125.
The peasant’s nest. Cowper, The Task, I. 227 and 247.
[287]. Oh! for a lodge in some vast wilderness. Cowper, The Task, II. 2: [contiguity].
And disappointed still.
Cf. ‘And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed.’
Cowper, The Task, III. 127.
But the season’s difference. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 1.
Apparent queen [of night]. Paradise Lost, IV. 608.