[5]: Personal Recollections of the late Daniel O'Connell, M.P. By William J. O'N. Daunt.
[6]: See, also, an ensuing page, [120].
[7]: Johnson, by the way, had a strange nervous feeling, which made him uneasy if he had not touched every post between the Mitre Tavern and his own lodgings.
[8]: The house has been destroyed many years.
[9]: "The Dyotts," notes Croker, "are a respectable and wealthy family, still residing near Lichfield. The royalist who shot Lord Brooke when assaulting St. Chad's Cathedral, in Lichfield, on St. Chad's Day, was a Mr. Dyott."
[10]: "I have seen," says a Correspondent of the Inverness Courier, "a copy of the second edition of Burns's 'Poems,' with the blanks filled up, and numerous alterations made in the poet's handwriting: one instance, not the most delicate, but perhaps the most amusing and characteristic will suffice. After describing the gambols of his 'Twa Dogs,' their historian refers to their sitting down in coarse and rustic terms. This, of course, did not suit the poet's Edinburgh patrons, and he altered it to the following:—
| 'Till tired at last, and doucer grown, |
| Upon a knowe they sat them down.' |
Still this did not please his fancy; he tried again, and hit it off in the simple, perfect form in which it now stands:—
| 'Until wi' daffin weary grown, |
| Upon a knowe they sat them down.'" |
[11]: Campbell's alterations were, generally, decided improvements; but in one instance he failed lamentably. The noble peroration of Lochiel is familiar to most readers:—