[317] George Borrow, Author of The Bible in Spain, etc.
[318] Evan Banks, by Miss Williams. See Allan Cunningham’s Songs of Scotland, iv. 59.
[319] Boswell’s Johnson, 11 April 1776.
[320] This struck E. F. G. so much that he introduced it into Omar Khayyám, stanza xxxiii. Professor Cowell writes, ‘I well remember shewing it to FitzGerald and reading it with him in his early Persian days at Oxford in 1855. I laughed at the quaintness; but the idea seized his imagination from the first, and, like Virgil with Ennius’ rough jewels, his genius detected gold where I had seen only tinsel. He has made two grand lines out of it.’
[322] A retired clergyman who lived at Bramford.
[323a] On Comparative Mythology. Oxford Essays, 1856.
[323b] Fraser’s Magazine for April 1857.
[328] M. Garcin de Tassy scrupulously observed this injunction in his Note sur les Rubâ’iyât de Omar Khaïyâm, which appeared in the journal Asiatique.
[337] See Letter to John Allen, 12 July 1840.
[344] Rather of the Orthodox reader by Omar himself.