[252b] Of course this is not intended to be taken quite seriously. It is to be remembered that FitzGerald also said of them, ‘There are many verses whose melody will linger in the ear, and many images that will abide in the memory. Such surely are those of men’s hearts brightening up at Christmas “like a fire new-stirred”—of the stream that leaps along over the pebbles “like happy hearts by holiday made light”—of the solitary tomb showing from afar “like a lamb in the meadow,” etc.’
[254a] Diogenes and his Lantern.
[254b] Old Lady Lambert.
[261] E. B. Cowell.
[262a] The Rev. George Crabbe, son of the Poet, and Vicar of Bredfield.
[262b] Bramford, near Ipswich.
[265] Charles Childs.
[266] Containing an article by Spedding on Euphranor.
[267a] The Cowells had gone to live in Oxford.
[267b] Euphranor.