[L] Thucyd. lib. 1, c. 68-71 (The Speech of the Corinthians).
[M] Herod. lib. 6, c. 120.
[N] Midsummer's Night Dream.
[O] According to a belief in the East, which is associated with one of the loveliest and most familiar of Oriental superstitions the bird of Paradise is never seen to rest upon the earth—and its nest is never to be found.
[P] It is supposed by many of the commentators on Dante, that in the form of his lost Beatrice, who guides him in his Vision of Heaven, the poet allegorizes Religious Faith.
[Q] The gloomy Typhon of Egypt assumes many of the mystic attributes of the Principle of Life which, in the Grecian Apotheosis of the Indian Bacchus, is represented in so genial a character of exuberant joy and everlasting youth.
[R] "What Plato thought, and godlike Cato was."—Pope.