Footnotes:
[1] One of the most remarkable instances of the use made of antithesis I ever heard was at Friern Barnet Church, into the porch of which I strolled when walking one summer day some twenty-five years ago. I was just in time to hear the preacher use words which I have never forgotten. The antithesis of the sentence was perfect:
“If thou wouldst hereafter be where Christ is, see thou be not found now where He is not, lest when He come he say to you, what now by your conduct you say to Him ‘Depart from Me—where I am you cannot come!’” If any one would investigate this principle of antithetic reading further, let him take Macaulay’s “Essay on Von Ranke’s Popes,” vol. ii., p. 128, and beginning at the words, “There is not, and there never was,” see how to place the correct emphasis by observation of the opposed ideas. This is the one great secret of good reading. Printers’ punctuation is horribly misleading, and should usually be disregarded.
[2] See Browning Society’s Papers, Pt. XII., p. 81.
[3] This is a mistake: it should be Ongar, not Norwich.
[4] The name Druses is generally, but not universally, believed to be derived from this Darazi.—E. B.
[5] By means of riddles, as related in the Bible.
[6] The above sonnet, by Robert Browning, is copied from The Monthly Repository (edited by W. J. Fox) for 1834, New series, vol. viii., p. 712.
[7] For the above suggestions I am indebted to the Notes of the Browning Society, Part VII., p. 42*.