[641] [Compare Prisoner of Chillon, lines 82-85, Poetical Works, 1901, iv. 17.]
[642] The Russians, as is well known, run out from their hot baths to plunge into the Neva; a pleasant practical antithesis, which it seems does them no harm.
[LV] {476}But once there (few have felt this more than I).—[MS. erased.]
[643] [Compare Childe Harold, Canto II. stanza lviii. line 9, Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 59, note 1.]
[644] {477}[See Plutarch's Caius Marius, Langhorne's translation, 1838, pp. 304, 305.]
[LW] That Lady who is not at home to all.—[MS. erased.]
[645] {478}For a description and print of this inhabitant of the polar region and native country of the Aurorae Boreales, see Sir E. Parry's Voyage In Search of a North-West Passage, [1821, p. 257. The print of the Musk-Bull is drawn and engraved by W. Westall, A.R.A., from a sketch by Lieut. Beechy. He is a "fearful wild-fowl!">[
[646] [Charles, second Earl Grey, born March 13, 1764, succeeded to the peerage in 1807, died July 17, 1847.]
[647] [William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, born November 15, 1708, died May 11, 1778.]
[648] ["His person was undoubtedly cast by Nature in an elegant and pleasing mould, of a just height, well-proportioned, and with due regard to symmetry.... His countenance was handsome and prepossessing.... His manners were captivating, noble, and dignified, yet unaffectedly condescending.... Homer, as well as Virgil, was familiar to the Prince of Wales; and his memory, which was very tenacious, enabled him to cite with graceful readiness the favourite passages of either poet."—The Historical ... Memoirs of Sir N.W. Wraxall, 1884, v. 353, 354.]