[937] ‘Henry stands with Alfred, Canute, William the Conqueror, and Edward I, one of the conscious creators of English greatness.… If he had been a better man, his work would have been second to that of no character in history; had he been a weaker one than he was, England might have had to undergo for six hundred years the fate of France,’ Stubbs, Benedict of Peterborough, II. xxxiii, xxxvi.
[938] Sermon preached before the University on the Sunday following the death of Her late Majesty; now printed as an appendix to the present volume.
[939] Faust, Part I, Scene iv.
[940] Above, pp. 38, 120, 125-6, 129, 131, 135, 160, 191.
[941] Cf. Lord Rosebery’s inspiring address at Winchester (Humphreys’, Piccadilly).
[942] Iliad, v. 303, 304.
[943] Cited by Ebert, ii. 151.
[944] ‘Usque ad quattuor milia quingenti traditi, et … in loco qui Ferdi [Verden] uocatur, iussu regis omnes una die decollati sunt,’ Einhardi Annales, sub anno 782.
[945] See above, p. 124.
[946] Tennyson, Guinevere.