Pursue the triumph and partake the gale! (Rather like Pope).
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees, (Why, this is Shakspeare).
To point a moral, or adorn a tale. (Oh! it's Dr. Johnson).
To the succeeding lines the same authority had added in succession the names of Gray Wordsworth, Campbell, and so on throughout the poem. What does he mean? Does he mean to say he has ever met with any one of these lines before?
[3] Burke.
[4] Our respectable correspondent must have visited the English Opera in his younger days, or else Charles Mathews must have paid a visit to Crooksley. He must also have seen the printed addresses circulated lately in Deptford during a contest for the office of gravedigger, where the proceedings were as outrageous as these that he describes.
[5] The liquids are "l, m, n, r."—Lindley Murray.
[6] The bumkin is the spar that projects out from the stern to haul the mizen-sheet home.—Naval Dictionary. Here, however, it is probable that a double entendre was meant.
[7] In No. CXLIII. of the United Service Journal, Sir Thomas Ussher has given an interesting account of the embarkation and conveyance of Napoleon from Frejus to Elba, in which we find the following passage:—"On arriving alongside, I immediately went up the side to receive the Emperor on the quarter-deck. He took his hat off, and bowed to the officers who were assembled on the deck. He then immediately went forward to the forecastle amongst the people, and I found him there talking to some of the men, conversing with those among them who understood a little French."
[8] In another part of the same article, in the United Service Journal, Sir Thomas Ussher says—"This evening a small trading vessel passed near us, I ordered her to be examined; and as Napoleon was anxious to know the news, I desired the Captain to be sent on board. Napoleon was on the quarter-deck—he had a great coat and round hat on." At another place, after their arrival at Elba—"At eight, the Emperor asked me for a boat, as he intended taking a walk on the opposite side of the bay. He wore a great coat and a round hat."