"The 'crooked Body with a crooked Mind.'"—Page [108].
"Mens curva in corpore curvo."
Said of Pope by Lord Orrery.
"Neither as Locke was, nor as Blake."—Page [115].
The Shire Hall at Taunton, where these verses were read at the unveiling, by Mr. James Russell Lowell, of Miss Margaret Thomas's bust of Fielding, September 4th, 1883, also contains busts of Admiral Blake and John Locke.
"The Journal of his middle-age."—Page [118].
It is, perhaps, needless to say that the reference here is to the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, published posthumously in February, 1755,—a record which for its intrinsic pathos and dignity may be compared with the letter and dedication which Fielding's predecessor and model, Cervantes, prefixed to his last romance of Persiles and Sigismunda.
Charles George Gordon.—Page [120].
These verses appeared in the Saturday Review for February 14th, 1885.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.—Page [122].
These verses appeared in the Athenæum for October 8th, 1892.