[617] [See The Age of Bronze, line 678, sq., Poetical Works, 1901, v. 573, note 3.]
[618] [Jacques Laffitte (1767-1844), as Governor of the Bank of France, advanced sums to Parisians to meet their enforced contributions to the allies, and, in 1817, advocated liberal measures as a Deputy.]
[LG] {458}Were not worth one whereon their profile shines.—[MS. erased.]
[619] ["They say that 'Knowledge is Power';—I used to think so; but I now know that they meant Money ... every guinea is a philosopher's stone, or at least his touch-stone. You will doubt me the less, when I pronounce my pious belief—that Cash is Virtue."—Letter to Kinnaird, February 6, 1822, Letters, 1901, vi. 11.]
[620] [Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto III. stanza ii. lines 4-6.]
[621] {459}[See Godwin's Essay Of Population, 1820 (pp. 18, 19, et passim), in which he renews his attack on Malthus's Essay on the Principles of Population.]
[622] ["We have no notion that Lord B[yron] had any mischievous intention in these publications—and readily acquit him of any wish to corrupt the morals, or impair the happiness of his readers ... but it is our duty ... to say, that much of what he has published appears to us to have this tendency.... How opposite to this is the system, or the temper, of the great author of Waverley!"—Edinburgh Review, February, 1822, vol. 36, p. 451.]
—— for his moral pen
Held up to me by Jeffrey as example.