[84: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, vol. i. pp. 330-1; Preface to 1st edition, 1799.]
[85: Hermippus Redivivus; or The Sage's Triumph over Old Age
and
the Grave (translated from the Latin of Cohausen, with
annotations), 1743. Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume "very
entertaining as an account of the hermetic philosophy and as
furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the
human
mind," adding "if it were merely imaginary it would be
nothing at
all.">[
[86: St. Leon, vol. iv. ch, xiii.]
[87: St. Leon, Bk. iv, ch. v.]
[88: Lives of the Necromancers, 1834, Preface. "The main purpose of this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity of the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be productive of the most salutary lessons.">[
[89: St. Godwin: A Tale of the 16th, 17th and 18th Century, by Count Reginald de St. Leon, 1800, p. 234.]
[90: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 10.]
[91: Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 44.]
[92: Hogg, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 15.]
[93: Cf. Castle of Lindenberg story in The Monk, and ballad of Alonzo the Brave.]